Quote Originally Posted by Birka Viking
The x1950Pro have only 12 pipes and geforce 7800gs have 16 pipes...And its the pipes who is the most important in game preformance. And the pipes handle all information that flow through the card..
So my advice is that u shall buy 7800gs.....
That's not even close to true any more. The word "pipeline" doesn't mean what it used to since the GPU-makers decoupled the pixel and vertext shaders. And the X1950 Pro is a much more powerful card than the 7800GS.

Tom's Hardware is occasionally suspect, but this is a pretty good review of the latest AGP cards. Sample quote:

"[T]he X1950 PRO really pulled ahead when higher levels of anti-aliasing were used. Then again, for about $180 - over $50 less than the X1950 PRO - the 7600 GT makes a very compelling argument. It certainly delivers playable performance, at least as fast as the more expensive 7800 GS."