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SQRTSS—Compute Square Root of Scalar Single-Precision Value

Opcode/Instruction Op /En 64/32 bit Mode Support CPUID Feature Flag Description

F3 0F 51 /r

SQRTSS xmm1, xmm2/m32

RM V/V SSE Computes square root of the low single-precision floating-point value in xmm2/m32 and stores the results in xmm1.

VEX.NDS.128.F3.0F.WIG 51 /r

VSQRTSS xmm1, xmm2, xmm3/m32

RVM V/V AVX Computes square root of the low single-precision floating-point value in xmm3/m32 and stores the results in xmm1. Also, upper single-precision floating-point values (bits[127:32]) from xmm2 are copied to xmm1[127:32].

EVEX.NDS.LIG.F3.0F.W0 51 /r

VSQRTSS xmm1 {k1}{z}, xmm2, xmm3/m32{er}

T1S V/V AVX512F Computes square root of the low single-precision floating-point value in xmm3/m32 and stores the results in xmm1 under writemask k1. Also, upper single-precision floating-point values (bits[127:32]) from xmm2 are copied to xmm1[127:32].

Instruction Operand Encoding

Op/En Operand 1 Operand 2 Operand 3 Operand 4
RM ModRM:reg (w) ModRM:r/m (r) NA NA
RVM ModRM:reg (w) VEX.vvvv (r) ModRM:r/m (r) NA
T1S ModRM:reg (w) EVEX.vvvv (r) ModRM:r/m (r) NA

Description

Computes the square root of the low single-precision floating-point value in the second source operand and stores the single-precision floating-point result in the destination operand. The second source operand can be an XMM register or a 32-bit memory location. The first source and destination operands is an XMM register.

128-bit Legacy SSE version: The first source operand and the destination operand are the same. Bits (MAX_VL-1:32) of the corresponding YMM destination register remain unchanged.

VEX.128 and EVEX encoded versions: Bits 127:32 of the destination operand are copied from the corresponding bits of the first source operand. Bits (MAX_VL-1:128) of the destination ZMM register are zeroed.

EVEX encoded version: The low doubleword element of the destination operand is updated according to the writemask.

Software should ensure VSQRTSS is encoded with VEX.L=0. Encoding VSQRTSS with VEX.L=1 may encounter unpredictable behavior across different processor generations.

Operation


VSQRTSS (EVEX encoded version)
IF (EVEX.b = 1) AND (SRC2 *is register*)
    THEN
    SET_RM(EVEX.RC);
    ELSE
    SET_RM(MXCSR.RM);
FI;
IF k1[0] or *no writemask*
    THEN
    DEST[31:0] (cid:197) SQRT(SRC2[31:0])
    ELSE
    IF *merging-masking*
        ; merging-masking
        THEN *DEST[31:0] remains unchanged*
        ELSE
        ; zeroing-masking
        DEST[31:0] (cid:197) 0
    FI;
FI;
DEST[127:31] (cid:197) SRC1[127:31]
DEST[MAX_VL-1:128] (cid:197) 0
VSQRTSS (VEX.128 encoded version)
DEST[31:0] (cid:197)SQRT(SRC2[31:0])
DEST[127:32] (cid:197)SRC1[127:32]
DEST[MAX_VL-1:128] (cid:197)0
SQRTSS (128-bit Legacy SSE version)
DEST[31:0] (cid:197)SQRT(SRC2[31:0])
DEST[MAX_VL-1:32] (Unmodified)

Intel C/C++ Compiler Intrinsic Equivalent

VSQRTSS __m128 _mm_sqrt_round_ss(__m128 a, __m128 b, int r);
VSQRTSS __m128 _mm_mask_sqrt_round_ss(__m128 s, __mmask8 k, __m128 a, __m128 b, int r);
VSQRTSS __m128 _mm_maskz_sqrt_round_ss( __mmask8 k, __m128 a, __m128 b, int r);
SQRTSS __m128 _mm_sqrt_ss(__m128 a)

SIMD Floating-Point Exceptions

Invalid, Precision, Denormal

Other Exceptions

Non-EVEX-encoded instruction, see Exceptions Type 3.

EVEX-encoded instruction, see Exceptions Type E3.