| The G40 builds on the G34 by adding programmable pixel shaders and is being pitched at apps that need a higher level of photorealism than games. |
| Moving into the next generation of game graphics, we are increasingly finding ourselves limited by the sheer complexity of the shaders we are sending through the pipeline. |
| The 460's support for DX11 features such as tessellation and compute shaders allow Civilization V to run faster while looking better than ever. |
| Programmable shaders, bilinear and trilinear texture filtering, texture compression, support for six simultaneous textures and a 40-bit colour pipeline for high-resolution detailed images. |
| Old graphics cards don't support shaders, and trying to run a post-effect on them would result in a failure. |
| As longer, more complex shaders become pervasive, debugging shaders has become more of a challenge for developers. |
