

The integrated graphics supports DirectX 11.1 for optimized graphics performance and OpenGL 3.2 & OpenCL 1.2 for enhanced general purpose computing in GPGPU supported applications.

Additional new instructions accelerate key algorithms including parallel extract/deposit, bit manipulation operations and new rotates/multiplies/shift. It also offers new capabilities such as Gather and FMA (Fused Multiply-Add).

Intel AVX2 expands integer data to 256-bit SIMD to increase the performance of integer operations. New 4 generation Intel Core processor family instructionsHaswell core-based processors come with Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (Intel AVX2).It delivers improved CPU performance and enhanced overclocking over its previous generation Microarchitecture. Haswell Microarchitecture on 22nm processThe new Microarchitecture (code name Haswell) has full integrated voltage regulator (FIVR) for simplified motherboard design.
