| 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 singleprecision floating-point value in xmm2/m32 and stores the results in xmm1. |
| VEX.NDS.LIG.F3.0F.WIG 51/r VSQRTSS xmm1, xmm2, xmm3/m32 | RVM | V/V | AVX | Computes square root of the low singleprecision 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]. |
| 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 |
Computes the square root of the low single-precision floating-point value in the source operand (second operand) and stores the single-precision floating-point result in the destination operand. The source operand can be an XMM register or a 32-bit memory location. The destination operand is an XMM register. The three high-order doublewords of the destination operand remain unchanged. See Figure 10-6 in the Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual, Volume 1, for an illustration of a scalar single-precision floating-point operation.
In 64-bit mode, using a REX prefix in the form of REX.R permits this instruction to access additional registers (XMM8-XMM15). 128-bit Legacy SSE version: The first source operand and the destination operand are the same. Bits (VLMAX1:32) of the corresponding YMM destination register remain unchanged. VEX.128 encoded version: Bits (VLMAX-1:128) of the destination YMM register are zeroed.
SQRTSS (128-bit Legacy SSE version) DEST[31:0] ← SQRT(SRC2[31:0]) DEST[VLMAX-1:32] (Unmodified) VSQRTSS (VEX.128 encoded version) DEST[31:0] ← SQRT(SRC2[31:0]) DEST[127:32] ← SRC1[127:32] DEST[VLMAX-1:128] ← 0
| SQRTSS: | __m128 _mm_sqrt_ss(__m128 a) |
Invalid, Precision, Denormal.
See Exceptions Type 3.