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MOVHPD — Move High Packed Double Precision Floating-Point Value

Opcode/ Instruction Op / En 64/32 bit Mode Support CPUID Feature Flag Description
66 0F 16 /r MOVHPD xmm1, m64 A V/V SSE2 Move double precision floating-point value from m64 to high quadword of xmm1.
VEX.128.66.0F.WIG 16 /r VMOVHPD xmm2, xmm1, m64 B V/V AVX Merge double precision floating-point value from m64 and the low quadword of xmm1.
EVEX.128.66.0F.W1 16 /r VMOVHPD xmm2, xmm1, m64 DV/V AVX512F OR AVX10.1 Merge double precision floating-point value from m64 and the low quadword of xmm1.
66 0F 17 /r MOVHPD m64, xmm1 C V/V SSE2 Move double precision floating-point value from high quadword of xmm1 to m64.
VEX.128.66.0F.WIG 17 /r VMOVHPD m64, xmm1 C V/V AVX Move double precision floating-point value from high quadword of xmm1 to m64.
EVEX.128.66.0F.W1 17 /r VMOVHPD m64, xmm1 EV/V AVX512F OR AVX10.1 Move double precision floating-point value from high quadword of xmm1 to m64.

Instruction Operand Encoding

Op/En Tuple Type Operand 1 Operand 2 Operand 3 Operand 4
A N/A ModRM:reg (r, w) ModRM:r/m (r) N/A N/A
B N/A ModRM:reg (w) VEX.vvvv (r) ModRM:r/m (r) N/A
C N/A ModRM:r/m (w) ModRM:reg (r) N/A N/A
D Tuple1 Scalar ModRM:reg (w) EVEX.vvvv (r) ModRM:r/m (r) N/A
E Tuple1 Scalar ModRM:r/m (w) ModRM:reg (r) N/A N/A

Description

This instruction cannot be used for register to register or memory to memory moves.

128-bit Legacy SSE load:

Moves a double precision floating-point value from the source 64-bit memory operand and stores it in the high 64-bits of the destination XMM register. The lower 64bits of the XMM register are preserved. Bits (MAXVL-1:128) of the corresponding destination register are preserved.

VEX.128 & EVEX encoded load:

Loads a double precision floating-point value from the source 64-bit memory operand (the third operand) and stores it in the upper 64-bits of the destination XMM register (first operand). The low 64-bits from the first source operand (second operand) are copied to the low 64-bits of the destination. Bits (MAXVL-1:128) of the corresponding destination register are zeroed.

128-bit store:

Stores a double precision floating-point value from the high 64-bits of the XMM register source (second operand) to the 64-bit memory location (first operand).

Note: VMOVHPD (store) (VEX.128.66.0F 17 /r) is legal and has the same behavior as the existing 66 0F 17 store. For VMOVHPD (store) VEX.vvvv and EVEX.vvvv are reserved and must be 1111b otherwise instruction will #UD.

If VMOVHPD is encoded with VEX.L or EVEX.L’L= 1, an attempt to execute the instruction encoded with VEX.L or EVEX.L’L= 1 will cause an #UD exception.

Operation

MOVHPD (128-bit Legacy SSE Load)

DEST[63:0] (Unmodified)
DEST[127:64] ← SRC[63:0]

VMOVHPD (VEX.128 & EVEX Encoded Load)

DEST[63:0] ← SRC1[63:0]
DEST[127:64] ← SRC2[63:0]

VMOVHPD (Store)

DEST[63:0] ← SRC[127:64]

Intel C/C++ Compiler Intrinsic Equivalent

MOVHPD __m128d _mm_loadh_pd ( __m128d a, double *p)
MOVHPD void _mm_storeh_pd (double *p, __m128d a)

SIMD Floating-Point Exceptions

None.

Other Exceptions

Non-EVEX-encoded instruction, see Table 2-22, “Type 5 Class Exception Conditions,” additionally:

#UD If VEX.L = 1.


Source: Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual, Combined Volumes (Order Number 325462-091US, March 2026)
Generated: 7-6-2026

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