NASM 2.05 based x86 Instruction Reference[ch257]
A.5.233 PMAXSW: Packed Signed Integer Word Maximum PMAXSW mm1,mm2/m64 ; 0F EE /r [KATMAI,MMX] PMAXSW xmm1,xmm2/m128 ; 66 0F EE /r [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] PMAXSW compares each pair of words in the two source operands, and for each pair it stores the maximum value in the destination register.