For a min/max reduction loop, the vectorizer adds fast math flags to the fcmp/select for the horizontal reduction after the loop. But the selects in the loop don't have fastmath flags. This leads to InstCombine creating fmaxnum/fminnum intrinsics for the horizontal reduction. X86 codegens both the loop body and the horizontal reduction to the FP min/max instructions so the difference didn't end up mattering. It just looked inconsistent.

clang -Ofast -march=skylake-avx512

float a[1024];

float foo() {
  float min = 0.0;
  for (int i = 0; i != 1024; ++i)
    min = min < a[i] ? min : a[i];

  return min;
}

https://godbolt.org/z/AMWYWm