The Sapphire HD 6900 series features the graphics technology from AMD designed to support all the features of Microsoft DirectX 11 and DirectCompute 11. The GPUs are built-in AMDs 40nm process to deliver high performance with low power consumption. Advanced hardware features include an enhanced Tesselation unit, AA and image filtering options, dedicated HDR Texture compression, multi-threaded communication with system CPU cores, embedded support for many of the DirectCompute 11 instructions, 3D stereoscopic support.