NASM 2.05 based x86 Instruction Reference[ch258]
A.5.234 PMAXUB: Packed Unsigned Integer Byte Maximum PMAXUB mm1,mm2/m64 ; 0F DE /r [KATMAI,MMX] PMAXUB xmm1,xmm2/m128 ; 66 0F DE /r [WILLAMETTE,SSE2] PMAXUB compares each pair of bytes in the two source operands, and for each pair it stores the maximum value in the destination register.