The next generation of cinematic realism. Full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 enables stunning and complex special effects. Next-generation shader architecture delivers faster and smoother gameplay.
NVIDIA PureVideo™
Technology ensures support for new video formats, while its motion estimation engine (MEE) allows the card to record and play video files simultaneously without interrupting system performance. An added value PureVideo™ provides is its high-definition MPEG-2 and WMV HD hardware accelerator that take on much of the heavy lifting during playback of Hi-Def video. Other video playback enhancements include a unique color correction mechanism that will help to create a home theater from a PC.
TurboCache Technology
By allowing the graphics processing unit (GPU) to share the capacity and bandwidth of dedicated video memory and dynamically available system memory, TurboCache turbocharges performance and provides larger total graphics memory. Key features of the TurboCache architecture: * Patented hardware and software technologies that render directly to system memory * A TurboCache Manager (TCM), which dynamically allocates memory for maximum system performance * Intelligent software algorithms that maximize application performance * Bidirectional PCI Express® bandwidth, in conjunction with TurboCache architecture, which improves graphics price/performance



