David Kirk, NVIDIA's chief scientist describe NV30 as a full floating point processor with thousands of instructions and a high level language. For the past years, NVIDIA main focus is on improving the GPU speed rather than designing a complicated pipe but for NV30, things will change. CineFX architecture work in conjunction with Cg programming language will make NV30 a fully programmable GPU with flexible instructions for vertex and pixel processing. It is expected that Microsoft will probably start supporting CineFX architecture with DirectX 9.1 therefore NV30 may be based on DirectX 9.1 when launched.

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