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The Counter Register (RCX and all smaller variants) are used to count loops with a known value, such as counting from 1 to 100. The indexing registers, such as RSI, are used with data manipulation commands, such as reading and writing hardware ports, moving data from one location to another, etc. The term indexing is the same as in other languages, where an index is an offset into an array.

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