The GeForce 8000 series graphics processing unit (GPU) offers unprecedented processing power and unparalleled levels of graphics realism and special effects!Based on the revolutionary NVIDIA GeForce 8 graphics architecture, the GeForce 8000 series GPU is the industry's first DirectX 10 compatible GPU and is the reference GPU for the DirectX 10 development and certification.A fully unified shader core that dynamically allocates processing power to geometry, vertex, physics, or pixel shading operations and unified stream processor that efficiently process geometry shader programs, while reducing dependence on the CPU for geometry processing, the GeForce 8000 series features NVIDIA GigaThread technology that supports thousands of independent simultaneous threads for maximum GPU utilization. Shader Model(SM) 4.0 enables complex operations on the GPU and reduces the load and CPU cycles.