PMAXSW—Maximum of Packed Signed Word Integers

Opcode/Instruction Op/En 64/32 bit Mode Support CPUID Feature Flag Description

0F EE /r1

PMAXSW mm1, mm2/m64

RM V/V SSE Compare signed word integers in mm2/m64 and mm1 and return maximum values.

66 0F EE /r

PMAXSW xmm1, xmm2/m128

RM V/V SSE2 Compare signed word integers in xmm2/m128 and xmm1 and return maximum values.

VEX.NDS.128.66.0F.WIG EE /r

VPMAXSW xmm1, xmm2, xmm3/m128

RVM V/V AVX Compare packed signed word integers in xmm3/m128 and xmm2 and store packed maximum values in xmm1.

VEX.NDS.256.66.0F.WIG EE /r

VPMAXSW ymm1, ymm2, ymm3/m256

RVM V/V AVX2 Compare packed signed word integers in ymm3/m128 and ymm2 and store packed maximum values in ymm1.

NOTES:

1. See note in Section 2.4, “Instruction Exception Specification” in the Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual, Volume 2A and Section 22.25.3, “Exception Conditions of Legacy SIMD Instructions Operating on MMX Registers” in the Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual, Volume 3A.

Instruction Operand Encoding

Op/En Operand 1 Operand 2 Operand 3 Operand 4
RM ModRM:reg (r, w) ModRM:r/m (r) NA NA
RVM ModRM:reg (w) VEX.vvvv (r) ModRM:r/m (r) NA

Description

Performs a SIMD compare of the packed signed word integers in the destination operand (first operand) and the source operand (second operand), and returns the maximum value for each pair of word integers to the destination operand.

In 64-bit mode, using a REX prefix in the form of REX.R permits this instruction to access additional registers (XMM8-XMM15).

Legacy SSE version: The source operand can be an MMX technology register or a 64-bit memory location. The destination operand can be an MMX technology register.

128-bit Legacy SSE version: The first source and destination operands are XMM registers. The second source operand is an XMM register or a 128-bit memory location. Bits (VLMAX-1:128) of the corresponding YMM destina-tion register remain unchanged.

VEX.128 encoded version: The first source and destination operands are XMM registers. The second source operand is an XMM register or a 128-bit memory location. Bits (VLMAX-1:128) of the destination YMM register are zeroed.

VEX.256 encoded version: The second source operand can be an YMM register or a 256-bit memory location. The first source and destination operands are YMM registers.

Note: VEX.L must be 0, otherwise the instruction will #UD.

Operation

PMAXSW (64-bit operands)

    IF DEST[15:0] > SRC[15:0]) THEN
         DEST[15:0] ← DEST[15:0];
    ELSE
         DEST[15:0] ← SRC[15:0]; FI;
    (* Repeat operation for 2nd and 3rd words in source and destination operands *)
    IF DEST[63:48] > SRC[63:48]) THEN
         DEST[63:48] ← DEST[63:48];
    ELSE
         DEST[63:48] ← SRC[63:48]; FI;

PMAXSW (128-bit operands)

    IF DEST[15:0] > SRC[15:0]) THEN
         DEST[15:0] ← DEST[15:0];
    ELSE
         DEST[15:0] ← SRC[15:0]; FI;
    (* Repeat operation for 2nd through 7th words in source and destination operands *)
    IF DEST[127:112] > SRC[127:112]) THEN
         DEST[127:112] ← DEST[127:112];
    ELSE
         DEST[127:112] ← SRC[127:112]; FI;

VPMAXSW (VEX.128 encoded version)

    IF SRC1[15:0] > SRC2[15:0] THEN
         DEST[15:0] ← SRC1[15:0];
    ELSE
         DEST[15:0] ← SRC2[15:0]; FI;
    (* Repeat operation for 2nd through 7th words in source and destination operands *)
    IF SRC1[127:112] >SRC2[127:112] THEN
         DEST[127:112] ← SRC1[127:112];
    ELSE
         DEST[127:112] ← SRC2[127:112]; FI;
DEST[VLMAX-1:128] ← 0

VPMAXSW (VEX.256 encoded version)

    IF SRC1[15:0] > SRC2[15:0] THEN
         DEST[15:0] ← SRC1[15:0];
    ELSE
         DEST[15:0] ← SRC2[15:0]; FI;
    (* Repeat operation for 2nd through 15th words in source and destination operands *)
    IF SRC1[255:240] >SRC2[255:240] THEN
         DEST[255:240] ← SRC1[255:240];
    ELSE
         DEST[255:240] ← SRC2[255:240]; FI;

Intel C/C++ Compiler Intrinsic Equivalent

PMAXSW:

__m64 _mm_max_pi16(__m64 a, __m64 b)

(V)PMAXSW:

__m128i _mm_max_epi16 ( __m128i a, __m128i b)

VPMAXSW:

__m256i _mm256_max_epi16 ( __m256i a, __m256i b)

Flags Affected

None.

Numeric Exceptions

None.

Other Exceptions

See Exceptions Type 4; additionally

#UD If VEX.L = 1.