The Palit GeForce GTX 260 896MB graphics card is PhysX ready, to give the best performance in new games. The GeForce GTX 260 896MB graphics card is also CUDA ready, which allows for certain types of media software to take the burden off of your CPU and put your graphics card to work. The Palit GTX 260 has 2nd generation NVIDIA architecture to allow for the best performance. The GTX 260 is also compatible with HDMI displays via dongle. With the use of CUDA, the GTX 260 is able to decrease the amount of time it takes to transcode a video, or just take the burden off of the CPU, so you can do other things.