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Farewell to 3DNOW!

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First post, by sliderider

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AMD will no longer include the 3DNOW! instruction set in future processors.

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2010/08 … retires-3dnow/1 🙁

Reply 1 of 2, by Davros

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as far as i know, there is nothing hardcoded to use 3dnow, so thats one problem we wont be seeing in future

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Reply 2 of 2, by swaaye

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Just don't try AMD's 3DNow EXE for Quake 2 on your future Bulldozer-architecture AMD CPU. 😉