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3DNow!

Updated: 06/16/2017 by Computer Hope

Developed as an alternative technology to Intel SSE (Streaming SIMD Extensions), 3DNow! was created by AMD in May 1998 with the AMD K6-2. Its main function is to help process bottlenecks in 3-D graphics and multimedia.

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This technology is explained in greater depth in the 3DNow! AMD documentation.

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