What is smart shader technology?

SMARTSHADER™ technology brings a new level of graphical effects to personal computers. It allows software

developers to use techniques that, until recently, were only available to the creators of non-interactive computer

generated movies and special effects, and bring them to interactive computer games, the world wide web, and

digital content creation applications.

Support for up to six textures in a single rendering pass, allowing more complex effects to be achieved

without the heavy memory bandwidth requirements and severe performance impact of multi-pass

rendering

• A simplified yet more powerful instruction set that lets developers design a much wider ranger of graphical

effects with fewer operations

• Pixel shaders up to 22 instructions in length (compared to 12 instructions in DirectX® 8.0 Pixel Shaders)

allow more accurate simulation of the visual properties of materials

• Ability to perform mathematical operations on texture addresses as well as color values, enabling new

types and combinations of lighting and texturing effects that were previously impossible