The MSI NX8400GS Series includes various state-of-the-art technologies of NVIDIA GeForce 8 family: NIVIDIA unified architecture, which dynamically allocates power to different shading operations and delivers up to 2X the gaming performance of prior generation GPUs; as well as the NIVIDIA Quantum Effects Technology and NVIDIA Lumenex engine, together enabling a new level of physics processing effects simulated and rendered on the GPU and introducing 16x anti-aliasing and 128-bit floating point High-Dynamic-Range (HDR) for rendering highly realistic lighting effects. MSI NX8400GS Series also support Microsoft DirectX 10 and Shader Model 4.0 for greater gaming experiences, and OpenGL 2.1 to ensure top-notch compatibility and performance for all OpenGL 2.1 applications.