Instruction
VPRORQ
Rotates each quadword right by an immediate count.
- Extensions
- Forms
- 6 (6 EVEX)
- Data
- Intel XED v2026.08.23
VPRORQ rotates each quadword right by the count in its immediate, of which only the low 6 bits count. A rotate right by n is a rotate left by 64 - n, so it does nothing that VPROLQ cannot do with another immediate, and that page covers the uses. Its doubleword form is VPRORD, and VPRORVQ takes a count per element from a register.
Recorded on Zen 5
{evex} vprorq xmm17, xmm30, 0x20swapped the two doublewords of each quadword: 0Fh became F00000000h.- 7Fh and FFh both act as 63, a rotate left by one:
vprorq ymm5{k7}{z}, ymm5, 0x7fturned 7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFh into FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFEh, andvprorq ymm24{k6}, [mem], 0xffdid the same to the element K6 selects. - A count of 0 copies the source:
vprorq zmm24{k4}, zmm3, 0wrote the elements of ZMM3 unchanged where K4 selects them.
Compilers prefer VPROLQ
GCC 14 and Clang 23 at -O2 with -march=x86-64-v4 turn rotates right
into VPROLQ. Over a uint64_t array, (x >> 7) | (x << 57) becomes
VPROLQ by 57, and the intrinsics _mm512_ror_epi64,
_mm256_ror_epi64 and the merging and zeroing _mm512_mask_ror_epi64
and _mm512_maskz_ror_epi64 with 13 become VPROLQ by 51. GCC emits
VPRORQ only when the count does not fit, passing
_mm512_ror_epi64(x, 64) to the assembler as vprorq zmm0, zmm0, 64;
Clang returns the source unchanged for 64, with no instruction, and
reduces 70 to a VPROLQ by 58. With a count per element,
_mm512_rorv_epi64 is VPRORVQ in both.
AMD’s Zen 5 latency spreadsheet gives VPRORQ what it gives VPROLQ: 2 cycles and two per cycle on pipes FP0 and FP1. Zen 5’s 6 recorded cases cover the register, memory and broadcast forms at all three widths.
Forms
| Instruction | Encoding | Requires |
|---|---|---|
VPRORQ zmm {k}{z}, zmm, imm8
VPRORQ_ZMMu64_MASKmskw_ZMMu64_IMM8_AVX512 | EVEX.512.66.0F.W1 72 /0 ib | AVX10.1 or AVX512F |
VPRORQ zmm {k}{z}, m512/m64bcst, imm8
VPRORQ_ZMMu64_MASKmskw_MEMu64_IMM8_AVX512 | EVEX.512.66.0F.W1 72 /0 ib | AVX10.1 or AVX512F |
VPRORQ xmm {k}{z}, xmm, imm8
VPRORQ_XMMu64_MASKmskw_XMMu64_IMM8_AVX512 | EVEX.128.66.0F.W1 72 /0 ib | AVX10.1 or AVX512F + AVX512VL |
VPRORQ xmm {k}{z}, m128/m64bcst, imm8
VPRORQ_XMMu64_MASKmskw_MEMu64_IMM8_AVX512 | EVEX.128.66.0F.W1 72 /0 ib | AVX10.1 or AVX512F + AVX512VL |
VPRORQ ymm {k}{z}, ymm, imm8
VPRORQ_YMMu64_MASKmskw_YMMu64_IMM8_AVX512 | EVEX.256.66.0F.W1 72 /0 ib | AVX10.1 or AVX512F + AVX512VL |
VPRORQ ymm {k}{z}, m256/m64bcst, imm8
VPRORQ_YMMu64_MASKmskw_MEMu64_IMM8_AVX512 | EVEX.256.66.0F.W1 72 /0 ib | AVX10.1 or AVX512F + AVX512VL |
Latency and throughput
| Model | zmm {k}{z}, zmm, imm8 | zmm {k}{z}, m512/m64bcst, imm8 | xmm {k}{z}, xmm, imm8ymm {k}{z}, ymm, imm8 | xmm {k}{z}, m128/m64bcst, imm8 | ymm {k}{z}, m256/m64bcst, imm8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skylake-SP, Ice Lake | 1 / 1p0 | 8 / 1p0 | 1 / 0.5p01 | 7 / 0.5p01 | 8 / 0.5p01 |
| Sapphire Rapids | 1 / 1p0 | 9 / 1p0 | 1 / 0.5p01 | 8 / 0.5p01 | 9 / 0.5p01 |
| Zen 4 | 2 / 1FP0 FP1 | 8 / 1FP1 FP2 | 2 / 11FP0 FP1 | 8 / 0.5FP1 FP2 | 8 / 0.5FP1 FP2 |
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.
Every quadword works alike: 2, 4 and 8 quadwords in the xmm, ymm and zmm forms. The forms write under a mask: where its bit is 0, the element keeps its old value, or zeroes it with {z}. With m64bcst, one quadword from memory stands for every element of the last source.
Result quadword i comes from quadword i of xmm2. Result quadwords 1 to 0: r1, r0.
Operation
What the forms do, in pseudocode that our tests run against results recorded on real processors. How to read.
for i in range(VL // 64):
if k1[i]:
zmm1.q[i] = ror(src2.q[i], imm8, 64)
elif zeroing:
zmm1.q[i] = 0
# else: zmm1.q[i] keeps its value
# m64bcst: src2.q[i] is the m64 for every i
# zmm1 is zeroed from bit VL upRun on AMD Zen 5 (EPYC 9645): 6 cases.
Operands
| Operand | Kind | Action |
|---|---|---|
VPRORQ xmm {k}{z}, xmm/m128/m64bcst, imm8 VPRORQ ymm {k}{z}, ymm/m256/m64bcst, imm8 VPRORQ zmm {k}{z}, zmm/m512/m64bcst, imm8 | ||
xmm, ymm, zmm | explicit | write (masked) |
{k} | explicit | read (write mask) |
xmm/m128/m64bcst, ymm/m256/m64bcst, zmm/m512/m64bcst | explicit | read |
imm8 | explicit | read |
Flags
None: XED records no flag that the forms test or change.
Exceptions
The exception class is XED's name for the set of exception conditions that a form follows. How to read.
- All forms
AVX512-E4
Attributes
What else XED records about the forms. How to read.
- All forms
- write masking
- Memory forms
- embedded broadcast (tuple Full); memory fault suppression
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 |
|---|---|---|
AVX512F_512 | AVX10.1 or AVX512F | Cannon Lake, Ice Lake (client), Tiger Lake, Nova Lake, Skylake-SP, Cascade Lake, Cooper Lake, Ice Lake (server), Sapphire Rapids, Emerald Rapids, Granite Rapids, Diamond Rapids, Knights Landing, Knights Mill, Zen 4, Zen 5, Zen 6 |
AVX512F_128 | AVX10.1 or AVX512F + AVX512VL | Cannon Lake, Ice Lake (client), Tiger Lake, Nova Lake, Skylake-SP, Cascade Lake, Cooper Lake, Ice Lake (server), Sapphire Rapids, Emerald Rapids, Granite Rapids, Diamond Rapids, Zen 4, Zen 5, Zen 6 |
AVX512F_256 | Same as AVX512F_128 | Same as AVX512F_128 |
More AVX10.1 instructions
- VPMULDQ
- VPMULHRSW
- VPMULHUW
- VPMULHW
- VPMULLD
- VPMULLQ
- VPMULLW
- VPMULTISHIFTQB
- VPMULUDQ
- VPOPCNTB
- VPOPCNTD
- VPOPCNTQ
- VPOPCNTW
- VPORD
- VPORQ
- VPROLD
- VPROLQ
- VPROLVD
- VPROLVQ
- VPRORD
- VPRORVD
- VPRORVQ
- VPSADBW
- VPSCATTERDD
- VPSCATTERDQ
- VPSCATTERQD
- VPSCATTERQQ
- VPSHLDD
- VPSHLDQ
- VPSHLDVD
- VPSHLDVQ
- VPSHLDVW
- VPSHLDW
- VPSHRDD
- VPSHRDQ
- VPSHRDVD
- VPSHRDVQ
- VPSHRDVW
- VPSHRDW
- VPSHUFB
Sources
- Intel XED v2026.08.23 (commit
0bcb6237345c): forms, encodings, operands, flags, exception classes, attributes, ISA sets, CPUID bits and chip model. - The CPU data of x86-64.net: Zen 3 to Zen 6, from GCC’s
-marchfeature sets and AMD’s Processor Programming References, which the page of each processor cites. - LLVM 23.1.2's x86 scheduling models (commit
85ac56026243): the latency, reciprocal throughput and ports of each form, as llvm-mca reports them. - Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 10.2 Architecture Specification, revision 7.0 (361050-007, April 2026)
- Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual, Volume 2 (325383-093, September 2026): Volume 2C, page 5-614 (VPRORD/
VPRORVD/ VPRORQ/ VPRORVQ) - Software Optimization Guide for the AMD Zen5 Microarchitecture (58455, rev. 1.00, August 2024), Wayback Machine copy of AMD's ZIP
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 timings come from LLVM's scheduling models, part of the LLVM Project, licensed under the Apache License 2.0 with LLVM Exceptions. The text is our own.