AMD plans for a variety of upcoming processors on the 3DNow feature desist. How AMD proclaim in a blog entry that will provide the company at a range of future processors on an implementation of 3DNow functionality. AMD advises developers to consider appropriate application code and, where implemented at ISSE commands. Expelled from this are only the PREFETCH and PREFETCHW instruction sets that are to be housed in suitable processors in a split 3DNowPrefetch class.

Which classes do without processors AMD 3DNow is, and whether AMD's Bobcat and Bulldozer will be delivered without the in-house multimedia instruction was not known. AMD 3DNow was at first designed as a competitor to Intel's MMX functions. As with MMX and 3DNow the successor SSE accelerated vector calculations. After AMD licensed Intel's SSE technology, 3DNow lost its meaning.