AVX-512 Performance + Power Efficiency Shines With AMD Strix Halo
With Embree, Open Image Denoise, and other open-source software developed by Intel as part of their oneAPI Rendering Toolkit there was a very nice showing for the AVX-512 benefits for creators with AMD Strix Halo laptops.
For creative software able to make use of AVX-512, there was very great uplift from AVX-512 without any increased power draw and in turn no thermal woes to worry about for laptops like the HP ZBook Ultra G1a.
Even for JSON parsing with the simdjson library that was adapted to support AVX-512, there is significantly better performance on Zen 5 thanks to the presence of AVX-512.