Instruction
VPCOMUW
Compares packed unsigned words by the predicate an immediate selects, into all-ones or all-zeros words; XOP.
An AMD extension: Intel processors do not have this instruction.
- Extensions
- Mnemonics
- VPCOMUW, VPCOMLTUW, VPCOMLEUW, VPCOMGTUW, VPCOMGEUW, VPCOMEQUW, VPCOMNEQUW, VPCOMFALSEUW, VPCOMTRUEUW
- Forms
- 2 (2 XOP)
- Data
- Intel XED v2026.08.23
Forms
Data flow
Where the elements of the sources go, element 0 on the right; results that depend on a control value are drawn for an example. How to read.
Result word i comes from word i of xmm2 and xmm3. Result words 7 to 0: r7, r6, r5, r4, r3, r2, r1, r0.
Operation
What the forms do, in pseudocode that our tests run against results recorded on real processors. How to read.
features = cpuid_leaf(0x80000001, 0)[2]
if not features >> 11 & 1:
fault(UD) # CPUID: no XOP
for i in range(8):
a = xmm2.w[i]
b = src3.w[i]
if xop_compare(imm8, a, b):
xmm1.w[i] = -1
else:
xmm1.w[i] = 0
# imm8 & 7: 0 <, 1 <=, 2 >, 3 >=, 4 ==, 5 !=, 6 false, 7 true
# xmm1 is zeroed from bit 128 upRun on AMD Zen 5 (EPYC 9645): 2 cases. Its cases ran where CPUID reported no XOP, and every one raised an exception.
Operands
| Operand | Kind | Action |
|---|---|---|
VPCOMUW xmm, xmm, xmm/m128, imm8 | ||
xmm | explicit | write |
xmm | explicit | read |
xmm/m128 | explicit | read |
imm8 | explicit | read |
Flags
None: XED records no flag that the forms test or change.
Intrinsics
The C intrinsics of Clang 23.1.2 that compile to VPCOMUW, each with the form it compiles to and the Clang options it needs. The forms come from compiling every intrinsic and decoding the result with Intel XED; all intrinsics A–Z explains the method.
| Intrinsic | Compiles to |
|---|---|
_mm_com_epu16
__m128i _mm_com_epu16(__m128i A, __m128i B, const int N) |
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_mm_comge_epu16
__m128i _mm_comge_epu16(__m128i __A, __m128i __B) |
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_mm_comgt_epu16
__m128i _mm_comgt_epu16(__m128i __A, __m128i __B) |
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_mm_comle_epu16
__m128i _mm_comle_epu16(__m128i __A, __m128i __B) |
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_mm_comlt_epu16
__m128i _mm_comlt_epu16(__m128i __A, __m128i __B) |
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CPUID and processors
Each form belongs to an XED ISA set. A form can be used when the processor reports every CPUID bit of one of its ISA set's alternatives.
| ISA set | CPUID | Processors |
|---|---|---|
XOP | XOP | Bulldozer, Piledriver |
More XOP instructions
- VFRCZPD
- VFRCZPS
- VFRCZSD
- VFRCZSS
- VPCMOV
- VPCOMB
- VPCOMD
- VPCOMQ
- VPCOMUB
- VPCOMUD
- VPCOMUQ
- VPCOMW
- VPERMIL2PD
- VPERMIL2PS
- VPHADDBD
- VPHADDBQ
- VPHADDBW
- VPHADDDQ
- VPHADDUBD
- VPHADDUBQ
- VPHADDUBW
- VPHADDUDQ
- VPHADDUWD
- VPHADDUWQ
- VPHADDWD
- VPHADDWQ
- VPHSUBBW
- VPHSUBDQ
- VPHSUBWD
- VPMACSDD
- VPMACSDQH
- VPMACSDQL
- VPMACSSDD
- VPMACSSDQH
- VPMACSSDQL
- VPMACSSWD
- VPMACSSWW
- VPMACSWD
- VPMACSWW
- VPMADCSSWD
Sources
- Intel XED v2026.08.23 (commit
0bcb6237345c): forms, encodings, operands, flags, exception classes, attributes, ISA sets, CPUID bits and chip model. - Clang's x86 intrinsic headers, LLVM 23.1.2 (commit
85ac56026243): the intrinsics, their signatures and doc comments, and the Clang of that release, which compiled each of them. - AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual, Volume 4: 128-Bit and 256-Bit Media Instructions (26568, rev. 3.25, November 2021), Wayback Machine copy of AMD's PDF
The tables are derived from Intel XED, Copyright Intel Corporation, licensed under the Apache License 2.0; x86-64.net converted and reformatted them. The intrinsics and their signatures come from Clang, part of the LLVM Project, licensed under the Apache License 2.0 with LLVM Exceptions. The text is our own.