• Unified shader architecture
• GigaThread™ technology
• Full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10
  • Geometry shaders
  • Geometry instancing
  • Streamed output
  • Shader Model 4.0
• Full 128-bit floating point precision through the entire rendering pipeline

• 16x full screen anti-aliasing
• Transparent multisampling and transparent supersampling
• 16x angle independent anisotropic filtering
• 128-bit floating point high dynamic-range (HDR) lighting with anti-aliasing
  • 32-bit per component floating point texture filtering and blending
• Advanced lossless compression algorithms for color, texture, and z-data
• Support for normal map compression
• Z-cull
• Early-Z

• Advanced shader processors architected for physics computation
• Simulate and render physics effects on the graphics processor

• Combines the capacity and bandwidth of dedicated video memory with dynamically allocated system memory to dramatically turbocharge performance.

• Patented hardware and software technology allows two GeForce-based graphics cards to run in parallel to scale performance and enhance image quality on today's top titles.

• Dedicated on-chip video processor
• High-definition H.264, VC-1, MPEG2 and WMV9 decode acceleration
• Advanced spatial-temporal de-interlacing
• HDCP capable³
• Spatial-Temporal De-Interlacing
• Noise Reduction
• Edge Enhancement
• Bad Edit Correction
• Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)
• High-quality scaling
• Video color correction
• Microsoft® Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) support

• Two dual-link DVI outputs for digital flat panel display resolutions up to 2560x1600⁴
• One dual-link DVI outputs for digital flat panel display resolutions up to 2560x1600⁵
• One single-link DVI outputs for digital flat panel display resolutions up to 1920x12006⁶
• Dual integrated 400MHz RAMDACs for analog display resolutions up to and including 2048x1536 at 85Hz
• Integrated HDTV encoder provides analog TV-output (Component/Composite/S-Video) up to 1080i resolution
• NVIDIA nView® multi-display technology capability
• 10-bit display processing

• Full DirectX 10 support
• Dedicated graphics processor powers the new Windows Vista Aero 3D user interface
• VMR-based video architecture

• Designed for PCI Express® x16
• Designed for high-speed GDDR3 and DDR2 memory

• Built for Microsoft Windows Vista
• Windows XP/Windows XP 64
• Linux

• Complete DirectX support, including Microsoft DirectX 10 Shader Model 4.0
• Full OpenGL® support, including OpenGL 2.0

¹ NVIDIA SLI Technology is not available on GeForce 8400 GPUs.
² Feature requires supported video software. Features may vary by product.
³ Requires other compatible components that are also HDCP capable.
⁴ Feature available on GeForce 8600 GPUs only.
⁵ Feature available on GeForce 8500 GPUs only.
⁶ Feature available on GeForce 8400 GPUs only.