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Mac Pro (Late 2013)
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro6,1
Processor Name: 8-Core Intel Xeon E5
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 25 MB
Hyper-Threading Technology: Enabled
Memory: 64 GB
Earlier Mac models
AVX2 is an additional extension of the AVX instruction set, and was only available in later Haswell processors.
The MacPro late 2013 appear to use E5 v2 processors, too early to get those additional AVX2 instructions. AVX2 requires Haswell family processors.
They do include AVX instructions, but that appears to be not quite good enough according to the message you are getting. AVX were included in Sandy Lake family processors, such as these used in the MacPro late 2013:
4-core E5 1620v2
6-coreE5 1650v2
8-coreE5 1680v2
12-coreE5 2697v2
Thank you so much for your reply. The reason I’m asking is that I have the Adobe Creative Cloud subscription and I’m getting the message that my processor needs to support AVX2. Is this something that can be updated on my system or would I have to upgrade my whole system?
Where are you seeing that message and what is the exact wording??
Does it seem like just a gratuitous nag or are they claiming your processor is ACTUALLY deficient?
Does the message actually preclude operation?
To the best of my knowledge, that would be...nothing -- using Apple's recommended upgrades.
NONE of those processors were able to execute AVX2 instructions.
I was not able to find any common hack to upgrade, except to switch to a more-cores version of the same processor family, which would not accomplish adding AVX2 instructions.
If you DO find a way to replace the processor with a later one that DOES AVX2 instructions, even if it is dangerous to your computer or your person, Readers would like to know it exists, even if it is not recommended.
This is the message that I'm getting.
That's a very arcane question. Please share why you are you asking.
Awesome, good to know. Thank you so much for the information. I’ll see what I can do to upgrade the processor.
Does my Mac Pro support AVX2
