Hardware & Technical What is popcnt?
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It is an instruction to count the set bits in a value. This was introduced with SSE 4.2 and at this time most likely means you are running a really old pre-Excavator AMD chip.
yes....
its a quad core intel chip actually. Runs Elite fine. What does the popcnt mean in practice advantage. Seems many thing exist just to force you to keep upgrading with little disenable advantage.
Seeing how that instruction came with the first generation "Core i" CPUs, an old AMD chip would even be an upgrade in your case 
Seeing how that instruction came with the first generation "Core i" CPUs, an old AMD chip would even be an upgrade in your case
Its runs Elite and any other game I currently have. Is Apex Legends worth such an expense? Where are all the Directx12 games?
After reading this I'm definitely going to have to upgrade my CPU to experience all the joys of the POPCNT feature https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-fastest-way-to-count-the-total-number-of-set-bits-in-an-array-of-a-ten-thousand-16-bit-integers. All purchase request have to be submitted for approval. Not sure if simply stating we want POPCNT will be sufficient.
Assuming then that the current ED doesn't require POPCNT. What benefits would we see if it did?
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it sounds very rude to my english ear!