NVIDIA GeForce FX GPUs and Microsoft DirectX 9.0 API
The NVIDIA® GeForce? FX graphics processing units (GPUs) incite a revolution in the graphics world. Teamed with new application programming interfaces (APIs), such as Microsoft® DirectX? 9.0 (DX9), the highly-anticipated GeForce FX GPUs fuel a new generation of interactive content and brings real-time cinematic shading to the desktop.

The Microsoft DirectX 8.0 (DX8) API was the first DirectX version to enable programmable vertex shading hardware while adding significant flexibility to advanced pixel shading hardware. However, DX8 and DX8 hardware still imposed many restrictions on developers. Microsoft DX9 frees developers from those restrictions. With the most complete DX9 implementation in hardware, the GeForce FX GPUs deliver the performance and power required to overcome three major DX8 limitations

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