|Draft SVP64 |5 (1) |Scalable (2) |yes |yes |yes (3) |no (4) |see (5) |yes (6) |yes (7) |yes (8) |yes (9) |yes (10) |
|VSX |700+ |Packed SIMD |no |no |no |yes (11) |yes |no |no |no |no |yes (12) |
|NEON |~250 (13) |Packed SIMD |no |no |no |yes |yes |no |no |no |no |no |
-|SVE2 |~1000 (14) |Predicated SIMD (15) |no (15) |yes |no |yes |yes |no |yes (7) |no |no |no |
-|AVX-512 (16) |~1000s (17) |Predicated SIMD |no |yes |no |yes |yes |no |no |no |no |no |
-|RVV (18) |~190 |Scalable (19) |yes |yes |no |yes |yes (20) |no |yes |no |no |no |
-|Aurora SX (21)|~200 (22) |Scalable (23) |yes |yes |no |yes |no |no |no |no |no |no |
+|SVE2 |~1000 (14) |Predicated SIMD(15) |no (15) |yes |no |yes |yes |no |yes (7) |no |no |no |
+|AVX512 (16) |~1000s (17) |Predicated SIMD |no |yes |no |yes |yes |no |no |no |no |no |
+|RVV (18) |~190 (19) |Scalable (20) |yes |yes |no |yes |yes (21) |no |yes |no |no |no |
+|Aurora SX (22)|~200 (23) |Scalable (24) |yes |yes |no |yes |no |no |no |no |no |no |
* (1): plus EXT001 24-bit prefixing. See [[sv/svp64]]
* (2): A 2-Dimensional Scalable Vector ISA **specifically designed for the Power ISA** with both Horizontal-First and Vertical-First Modes. See [[sv/vector_isa_comparison]]
* (16): [AVX512 Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVX-512), [Lifecycle of an instruction set](https://media.handmade-seattle.com/tom-forsyth/) including full slides
* (17): difficult to exactly ascertain, contains subsets. Critically depends on ISA support from earlier x86 ISA subsets (several more thousand instructions). See [SIMD ISA listing](https://www.officedaytime.com/simd512e/)
* (18): [RVV Spec](https://github.com/riscv/riscv-v-spec/blob/master/v-spec.adoc)
-* (19): Like the original Cray RVV is a truly scalable Vector ISA (Cray setvl instruction). However, like SVE2, the Maximum Vector length is a Silicon-partner choice, which creates similar limitations that SVP64 does not have.
-* (20): like SVP64 it is up to the hardware implementor to choose whether to support 128-bit elements.
-* (21): [NEC SX Aurora](https://ftp.libre-soc.org/NEC_SX_Aurora_TSUBASA_VectorEngine-as-manual-v1.2.pdf) is based on the original Cray Vectors
-* (22): [Aurora ISA guide](https://sxauroratsubasa.sakura.ne.jp/documents/guide/pdfs/Aurora_ISA_guide.pdf) Appendix-3 11.1 p508
-* (23): Like the original Cray Vectors, the ISA Vector Length is independent of the underlying hardware, however Generation 1 has 256 elements per Vector register (3.2.4 p24, Aurora ISA guide)
+* (19): RISC-V Vectors are not stand-alone, i.e. like SVE2 and AVX-512 are critically dependent on the Scalar ISA (an additional ~96 instructions for the Scalar RV64GC set (RV64GC is equivalent to the Linux Compliancy Level)
+* (20): Like the original Cray RVV is a truly scalable Vector ISA (Cray setvl instruction). However, like SVE2, the Maximum Vector length is a Silicon-partner choice, which creates similar limitations that SVP64 does not have.
+* (21): like SVP64 it is up to the hardware implementor to choose whether to support 128-bit elements.
+* (22): [NEC SX Aurora](https://ftp.libre-soc.org/NEC_SX_Aurora_TSUBASA_VectorEngine-as-manual-v1.2.pdf) is based on the original Cray Vectors
+* (23): [Aurora ISA guide](https://sxauroratsubasa.sakura.ne.jp/documents/guide/pdfs/Aurora_ISA_guide.pdf) Appendix-3 11.1 p508
+* (24): Like the original Cray Vectors, the ISA Vector Length is independent of the underlying hardware, however Generation 1 has 256 elements per Vector register (3.2.4 p24, Aurora ISA guide)