Quote Originally Posted by Redigo
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."
Its true on these old card that the pipes is important.....They havent even decoupled their pipes on atis best card x1950xtx 512 which I have. But on the new 8800 gts and 8800 gtx all pipes is gone and they have fixed so the vertext and pixel are the same...Toms Hard ware suck and I never look at their test...
So when a game are going very heavy my sugestion is that u buy Geforce...And this can I say from my own experience. THen U have ATIs very bad forceware to deal with also..They hardly never update and when they do they often do it bad...
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