3DNow!

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Trademark of AMD, from 3D +‎ now, reflecting its potential for performance improvements in 3D graphics.

Proper noun

3DNow!

  1. (computing) An enhancement of the MMX extension to the x86 CPU instruction set architecture, allowing for enhanced performance with 3D-graphics-heavy applications; rendered obsolescent by later versions of the SSE instruction-set extensions.

Coordinate terms

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.