The AMD Athlon processor includes enhanced 3DNow!
technology designed to take 3D multimedia performance to new
heights. The enhanced 3DNow! technology implemented in the
AMD Athlon includes AMD’s original twenty-one 3DNow!
instructions (the industry’s first x86 instruction set to use
superscalar SIMD floating-point techniques to accelerate 3D
performance), plus, twenty-four new instructions, which
perform the following functions:
Twelve instructions that improve multimedia-enhanced
integer math calculations used in such applications as
speech recognition and video processing
Seven instructions that accelerate data movement for more
detailed graphics and functionality for internet browser
plug-ins and other streaming applications, enabling a richer
internet experience
Five digital signal processing (DSP) instructions that
enhance the performance of communications applications,
including soft modems, soft ADSL, MP3, and Dolby Digital
surround sound processing