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7820HK and TSX

ED4
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My laptop is on 7820HK processor. Intel's Product Specification tells that TSX is enabled, however CPU-Z doesn't show that TSX instructions are available. Why TSX instructions are missing from my processor?

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AlHill
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Perhaps a better question is why are they missing from cpu-z.

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n_scott_pearson
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Yea, from what I can determine, CPU-Z only displays the technologies that have an individual presence bit in the CPUID data. TSX, on the other hand, requires the checking of a complex set of indicators in the CPUID data to determine whether it is present. See this article for more information: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/how-to-detect-new-instruction-support-in-the-4th-generation-intel-core-processor-family How to detect New Instruction support in the 4th generation Intel® Core™ processor family.

Hope this helps,

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