X86 Assembly/SSE
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SSE stands for Streaming SIMD Extensions. SSE is essentially the floating-point equivalent of the MMX instructions. SSE registers are 128 bits, and can be used to perform operations on either two 64 bit floating point numbers (C double), or 4 32-bit floating point numbers (C float).
[edit] SSE
128-bit registers
XMM0 XMM1 XMM2 XMM3 XMM4 XMM5 XMM6 XMM7
[edit] SSE2
Same as MMX and SSE
[edit] SSE3
Same as MMX and SSE