# Intrinsics for Bitwise Operations

Parent topic: Intrinsics for Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (Intel® AVX2)

- _mm256_and_si256
  Performs bitwise logical AND operation on signed integer vectors. The corresponding Intel® AVX2 instruction is VPAND.
- _mm256_andnot_si256
  Performs bitwise logical AND NOT operation on signed integer vectors. The corresponding Intel® AVX2 instruction is VPANDN.
- _mm256_or_si256
  Performs bitwise logical OR operation on signed integer vectors. The corresponding Intel® AVX2 instruction is VPOR.
- _mm256_xor_si256
  Performs bitwise logical XOR operation on signed integer vectors. The corresponding Intel® AVX2 instruction is VPXOR.