• 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: 3D graphics can be embedded in Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps

• Extends the XNA content pipeline
• Static and animated models (skeletal animations incl. animation compression, morph targets)
• Reusable material definitions
• Texture processing: Color keying, normal map compression (DXT5nm), mipmap correction for alpha textures

• Hierarchical scene graph
• Static meshes
• Animated meshes: skeletal animation, morph target animation
• Sprites, billboards, particle effects, lens flare effects
• Orthographic and perspective cameras
• Various light types: ambient, point lights, directional lights, spotlights, projector lights, image-based lighting (IBL)
• Decal rendering
• Different fog types such as distance fog and height fog
• Sky rendering supporting skyboxes, user-defined gradient skies, atmospheric scattering and simulation of natural light, sun, moon with phases, starfields, cloud layers, and an ephemeris model for correct positions of sky objects
• Terrain rendering for large-scale, tile-based terrains, supporting continuous level of detail, flexible material blending, decals, roads, holes, etc.
• Water rendering supporting skybox reflections, planar reflections, refraction, foam, caustics, underwater effects, user-defined flow, infinite ocean plane, and wave displacement mapping (including FFT-based ocean waves)
• Vegetation rendering with wind animations, translucency, LOD and hardware instancing
• Reflections and render-to-texture support
• Figure rendering for drawings composed of lines and 2D shapes; supporting anti-aliased lines, dash patterns, filled shapes and hit testing
• Frustum culling, light culling and custom overlap queries
• Occlusion culling and shadow caster culling
• Level of detail (LOD)

• 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, night vision blue-shift ("scotopic vision")
• Various blur filters: Gaussian 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 is limited to the XNA stock effects (AlphaTestEffect, BasicEffect, DualTextureEffect, EnvironmentMapEffect, and SkinnedEffect).