To enable the highest level of 3D multimedia performance, today's PCs require innovative technologies from both the 3D graphics accelerator and the host CPU. Consider the 3D graphics-processing pipeline. It begins with 3D physical modeling and geometry transformations, lighting and clipping, which are floating-point-intensive. It ends with integer-intensive rendering, which is done primarily by 3D graphics accelerator cards.

Today's graphics accelerators are improving so quickly that the CPU cannot always provide data fast enough. The result is a bottleneck; 3D graphics performance is limited by the earlier floating-point-intensive stages of the graphics pipeline. 3DNow! technology relieves the bottleneck by accelerating the floating-point and other calculations that occur early in the pipeline. Ultimately, 3DNow! technology and the 3D graphics accelerators complement one another.

Answered by ani , an ibibo Advisor, at 4:49 PM on December 21, 2008

To enable the highest level of 3D multimedia performance, today's PCs require innovative technologies from both the 3D graphics accelerator and the host CPU. Consider the 3D graphics-processing pipeline. It begins with 3D physical modeling and geometry transformations, lighting and clipping, which are floating-point-intensive. It ends with integer-intensive rendering, which is done primarily by 3D graphics accelerator cards.

Today's graphics accelerators are improving so quickly that the CPU cannot always provide data fast enough. The result is a bottleneck; 3D graphics performance is limited by the earlier floating-point-intensive stages of the graphics pipeline. 3DNow! technology relieves the bottleneck by accelerating the floating-point and other calculations that occur early in the pipeline. Ultimately, 3DNow! technology and the 3D graphics accelerators complement one another.

Answered by Nagendra , an ibibo Master, at 10:12 AM on December 21, 2008