Empowering your creative element is what Sapphire does best and the SAPPHIRE RADEON 9250 continues this commitment with an advanced relationship between hardware and software! Fueled by the industry's leading technology in the ATI RADEON 9250 core, the SAPPHIRE RADEON 9250 comes fully loaded with its four pixel shader pipeline, SMARTSHADER technology, full hardware support for Microsoft DirectX 8.1 and DX9 compliance. This addition to the Sapphire family offers a full compliment of support for the hottest gaming titles available and still remains flexible enough to meet all of your multimedia needs with features such as VIDEO IMMERSION and FULLSTREAM technologies which provide for amazing video playback quality.