• Low-dynamic range (LDR) and high-dynamic range (HDR) rendering

• Linear (Gamma-aware) content and rendering pipeline

• Screen space ambient occlusion (SSAO)

• Anti-aliasing: MSAA, FXAA, SMAA

• Support for Reach and HiDef profile

• Interoperability with Windows Forms and the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)

• Extends the XNA content pipeline

• Static or animated models (incl. animation compression)

• Reusable material definitions

• Texture processing: Color keying, normal map compression (DXT5nm), mipmap correction for alpha textures

• Hierarchical scene graph

• Static and animated meshes

• Sprites, billboards, particle effects, lens flare effects

• Orthographic and perspective cameras

• Various light types: ambient, point lights, directional lights, spotlights, projector lights

• Different fog types such as distance fog and height fog

• Anti-aliased lines with dash patterns.

• Frustum culling, light culling and custom overlap queries

• Advanced effect binding system which automatically resolves shaders and shader parameters at runtime

• Various built-in materials supporting diffuse maps, specular maps, normal maps, opacity masks

• Support for XNA stock effects

• Extensible with custom effects

• Customizable render pipeline which supports forward and deferred rendering

• Default: Light pre-pass renderer ("deferred lighting") for opaque geometry and forward rendering for transparent geometry

• Various shadow types: filtered shadow maps, omni-directional shadow maps, cascaded shadow maps

• Optimized rendering through state sorting and hardware instancing

• Billboard renderer supporting soft particles and high-speed, off-screen rendering

• Debug rendering

• Image processing: Color grading, sharpening, unsharp-masking, saturation, sepia, noise, edge filter

• Special effects: Motions blur, depth of field, crepuscular rays ("god rays"), bloom, dynamic eye adaption

• Various blur filters: Gaussion blur, Box blur, Poisson blur, Kawase blur, horizontal blur, radial blur

• Nesting/chaining of post-processing effects

• Extensible with custom post-processing effects

Due to the limitations of the XNA Framework, rendering on Windows Phone 7 is limited to the XNA stock effects (AlphaTestEffect, BasicEffect, DualTextureEffect, EnvironmentMapEffect, and SkinnedEffect).