pixel pipelines?

palidon112

palidon112

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im looking at buying

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150228

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127284
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130084

and all the stats are pretty close, but what about pixel pipelines? why don't any of the 8*** series cards mention pixel pipelines?

what would you suggest out of those or other cards?

also, would my zalman VF900 fit on one of these? its not important, really, but i wouldn't mind using it. i think it would work but im not sure yet.
 
If there are no pipelines mentioned, then you can google the model number to find out. Its is not accurate to just compare pipelines, very much the same as comparing frequencies between AMD and Intel CPUs. For example the X1950XT has more pipelines (no too sure how many it has but I believe more than 24) than the 7900GT (24) and yet they are very similar in performance.
 
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yeah, well i want to take the pixel pipelines into consideration when im choosing my card. its not all i am going by..
 
For example the X1950XT has more pipelines (no too sure how many it has but I believe more than 24) than the 7900GT (24) and yet they are very similar in performance
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X1950XT has 16 pipes but it can do 48 shader processors.

And no 7900GT and X1950XT are not similar in performance. X1950XT is better


palidon112 said:
im looking at buying

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150228

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127284
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130084

what would you suggest out of those or other cards?
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Out of these MSI 8600GTS is the best

If you can spend more money then you can get this which can completely destroy 8600GTS
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814122022
 
i cant spend more than $200, i would like an 8800 gts, but im too poor, and i really dont need that much power. its just my x700 is old, and its giving me a shitload of problems.
 
8 series ditched pipelines, they now use stream processors and so does ati.

Model Release Date Codename Fabrication process (nm) Core clock max (MHz) Fillrate max (billion texel/s) Shaders Memory Power Consumption (Watts) Transistor Count (Millions) Shader Processing Power (Gigaflops)
Stream Processors Clock (MHz) Bandwidth max (GB/s) Bus type Bus width (bit) Megabytes Clock (MHz)
GeForce 8800 GTS [11] [12] [13] 8th November 2006 G80 90 500 24.00 96 1200 64.00 GDDR3 320 320/640 1600 108 681 (~690) 345.60
GeForce 8800 GTX [11] [12] [13] 8th November 2006 G80 90 575 36.80 128 1350 86.40 GDDR3 384 768 1800 145 681 (~690) 518.40
GeForce 8800 Ultra 2nd May 2007 G80 90 612 39.16 128 1500 103.68 GDDR3 384 768 2160 175 681 (~690) 576.00
 
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Out of those card the MSI one is the better, but have you looked into the 7950GT, they're very good and run games out now and the newer ones on max.
 
Model
Brand ATI x2900xt
Model 100-435906
Interface
Interface PCI Express x16
Chipset
Chipset Manufacturer ATI
GPU Radeon HD 2900 XT
Stream Processors 320
Memory
Memory Size 512MB
Memory Interface 512-bit
Memory Type GDDR3
3D API
DirectX DirectX 10
OpenGL OpenGL 2.0
Ports
DVI 2
TV-Out HDTV Out
VIVO Yes
General
Tuner None
RAMDAC 400 MHz
Max Resolution 2560 x 1600
CrossFire Ready Yes
 
palidon112 said:
yeah, well i want to take the pixel pipelines into consideration when im choosing my card. its not all i am going by..
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You cant decide on a car by looking at how many pipelines it has. A great example would be comparing the x1950XT to the 7950GT.

What you should look at is benchmarks, since cards can look alot better on paper then in real world scenarios.
 
as i said, its something else i want to look at.. on the car subject its not just the horsepower.. its the torque too.. know what i mean?


annnnd BAM it hits me.. tomshardware vga charts. duh! (edit: the 8600 isnt on the charts yet =()

i will look at the 7950, but i sort of want a dx10 card (even though i dont have vista..yet)
 
No one knows how the 8600xx will perform with DX10.. I happen to think it will put up a fight but it's possible that DX10 will will rip it to pieces (or anything in between). If you are seriously considering vista and DX10 consider saving alittle while longer to get an 8800gts. The cheapest i can find is alittle under $300, By the time you go vista it could have dropped further in price so as to fit your budget.


The moral? Wait till you need a dx10 card to buy one!
 
palidon112 said:
as i said, its something else i want to look at.. on the car subject its not just the horsepower.. its the torque too.. know what i mean?


annnnd BAM it hits me.. tomshardware vga charts. duh! (edit: the 8600 isnt on the charts yet =()

i will look at the 7950, but i sort of want a dx10 card (even though i dont have vista..yet)
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It's good to look at the specs, but what I would do is compare them here: http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php

That way you can see the detailed specs for various cards.
 
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