- SMARTSHADER™ 2.1- SMOOTHVISION™ 2.1- FULLSTREAM™- VIDEOSHADER™- HYDRAVISION™- Microsoft DirectX 9 and OpenGL 2.0 support Shop Modal header Powered by the world's powerful VPU -- ATI Radeon 9600 XT ASUS Radeon9600XT/TVD equips with newest ASUS-specific award-winning features and ATI's Radeon 9600XT Visual Processing Unit(VPU), which owns both ultimate excellent cinematic resolution and fierce graphics computing power. Incorporating various state-of-the-art technologies such as ATI's SmartShader 2.1, SmoothVision 2.1, Hyper Z III+, VideoShader, and unique ASUS innovations such as "ASUS Smart Cooling" ,"ASUS GameFace", "ASUS VideoSecurity", and "ASUS Digital VCR"make ASUS Radeon9600XT /TVD a complete solution for the 3D market. Chipset Feature SMARTSHADER™ 2.1 expands advanced abilities of vertex shader 2.0 and pixel shader 2.0 SMOOTHVISION™ 2.1 generates the sharpest and clearest images by up to 6x Anti-Aliasing and 16x anisotropic filtering FULLSTREAM™ removes blocky artifacts from streaming Internet video VIDEOSHADER™ integrates shader features to provide unprecedented support for digital and high definition video. HYDRAVISION™ provides multi-monitoring management 128-bit, 64-bit & 32-bit per pixel floating point color formats Microsoft DirectX 9 and OpenGL 2.0 support AGP 8X support Why ASUS is Better? ASUS GameFace™ for real-time video/audio communication ASUS Smart Cooling™ to ensure a quiet computing environment ASUS Smart Doctor™ provides the best operating safety for your system ASUS Video Security™ II for building private security system High-quality TV output for big screen gaming or presentations Video input supports real time video capture, high quality video compression and video editing DVI output for easy connectivity to digital flat panel display Diversified displays connectivity (Dual VGA, DVI+VGA, DVI+TV-out,VGA+Video-in,TV-out+Video-in,DVI+Video-in)