diff --git a/absl/base/prefetch.h b/absl/base/prefetch.h
index 4d42846..6bc9863 100644
--- a/absl/base/prefetch.h
+++ b/absl/base/prefetch.h
@@ -30,9 +30,11 @@
 #include <xmmintrin.h>
 #endif
 
-#if defined(_MSC_VER) && defined(ABSL_INTERNAL_HAVE_SSE)
+#if defined(_MSC_VER) && _MSC_VER >= 1900 && \
+    (defined(_M_X64) || defined(_M_IX86))
 #include <intrin.h>
 #pragma intrinsic(_mm_prefetch)
+#pragma intrinsic(_m_prefetchw)
 #endif
 
 namespace absl {
@@ -174,10 +176,15 @@
 inline void PrefetchToLocalCacheForWrite(const void* addr) {
 #if defined(_MM_HINT_ET0)
   _mm_prefetch(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(addr), _MM_HINT_ET0);
-#elif defined(__x86_64__)
+#elif defined(_MSC_VER) && _MSC_VER >= 1900 && \
+    (defined(_M_X64) || defined(_M_IX86))
+  // MSVC 2015 and up on x86/x64 supports prefetchw (feature listed as 3DNOW)
+  _m_prefetchw(const_cast<void*>(addr));
+#elif !defined(_MSC_VER) && defined(__x86_64__)
   // _MM_HINT_ET0 is not universally supported. As we commented further
   // up, PREFETCHW is recognized as a no-op on older Intel processors
-  // and has been present on AMD processors since the K6-2
+  // and has been present on AMD processors since the K6-2. We have this
+  // disabled for MSVC compilers as this miscompiles on older MSVC compilers.
   asm("prefetchw (%0)" : : "r"(addr));
 #endif
 }