MIPS-3D

MIPS-3D is an extension to the MIPS V instruction set architecture (ISA) that added 13 new instructions for improving the performance of 3D graphics applications. The instructions improved performance by reducing the number of instructions required to implement four common 3D graphics operations: vertex transformation, clipping, transformation and lighting.

For vertex transformation:

ADDR

For clipping:

CABS
BC1ANY2F
BC1ANY2T
BC1ANY4F
BC1ANY4T

For perspective division and normalization:

RECIP1
RECIP2
RSQRT1
RSQRT2

References

Thekkath, Radhika et al. (1999) "An Architecture Extension for Efficient Geometry Processing". Hot Chips Symposium.

Multimedia extensions

Alpha	MVI

ARM	NEON

MIPS	MDMX MIPS-3D MXU

PA-RISC	MAX

Power Architecture	AltiVec

SPARC	VIS

x86 (current)	MMX (1996) 3DNow! (1998) SSE (1999) SSE2 (2001) SSE3 (2004) SSSE3 (2006) SSE4 (2006) SSE5 ~~(2007)~~ AES-NI (2008) AVX (2008) F16C (2009) XOP (2009) CLMUL (2010) FMA (FMA4: 2011, FMA3: 2012) BMI (ABM: 2007, BMI1: 2012, BMI2: 2013, TBM: 2012) TSX (2013)

x86 (planned)	AVX-512 (2015) ASF

Suspended extensions' dates have been ~~struck through~~.

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