3D Now! Instruction Set

Discussion in 'CPU, Motherboards and Memory' started by rahulkhajuria, Feb 20, 2010.

  1. rahulkhajuria

    rahulkhajuria Geek Trainee

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    What is the 3DNow!(+) instruction set ?
    I recently bought a AMD 64 x2 5200+ based system & it is capable of the 3DNow! instruction set . What does this mean ? Of Course , it can also understand a few other instruction sets like MMX (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64, NX, VMX .
     
  2. edijs

    edijs Programmer

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    I am not sure what the question should accomplish, but I guess that the simply CPU supports more commands at the hardware level, thus adding functionality and ensuring the best performance for those operations.

    More extended info - here
     
  3. Storm2313

    Storm2313 Geek Trainee

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    It was hyped to help with game acceleration until intel caught on.
     

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