3DNow!™ Technology is a significant innovation to the x86 architecture that drives today's personal computers. 3DNow! technology is a group of new instructions that opens the traditional processing bottlenecks for floating-point-intensive and multimedia applications. With 3DNow! technology, hardware and software applications can implement more powerful solutions to create a more entertaining and productive PC platform. Examples of the type of improvements that 3DNow! technology enables are faster frame rates on high-resolution scenes, much better physical modeling of real-world environments, sharper and more detailed 3D imaging, smoother video playback, and near theater-quality audio