Compare 2 video cards price with only 4 times difference in pixel pipeline

[Mark Smith]

Pixel Pipelines - The amount of pixel pipelines a graphics card has can have
a great impact on the speed of the image rendering. This is all about pixel
pushing power. A card with 8 pipelines can process twice as many pixels as a
card of the same core speed and 4 pipelines.


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102619

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102532

There is an $80 difference between the 2 cards, but it seems to me the only
difference in the cards is the pixel pipeline. Does going from 8 to 12
pixels in the pipeline really matter that much?

 

[Paul]

Pixel Pipelines - The amount of pixel pipelines a graphics card has can have
a great impact on the speed of the image rendering. This is all about pixel
pushing power. A card with 8 pipelines can process twice as many pixels as a
card of the same core speed and 4 pipelines.


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102619

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102532

There is an $80 difference between the 2 cards, but it seems to me the only
difference in the cards is the pixel pipeline. Does going from 8 to 12
pixels in the pipeline really matter that much?

The first article is a "bang for buck" article. There are
a number of these around the net, and this one doesn't concentrate
on methodology too much. Treat this article as an opinion piece.
If a friend questions your purchase decision, you won't be able to
use this article to defend yourself

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28135

For gamers, there are lots of charts here:

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/vga_charts.html

Notice how, in the two products you selected, one doesn't
list the clock rates for core and memory. The width of the
memory on the card (64 bit, 128 bit, 256 bit wide interface),
the clock rates of core and memory, the number of resources
inside the GPU, all play a part in the performance equation.

HTH,
Paul

 

[Frank]

One is a GT and the other is not.

Go for the GT. It also has VIVO (video in/video out)

 

[Frank]

Forget what I just said. The GT is the low-end card unline Nvidia which
makes a GT more powerful than a non GT.

http://legionhardware.com/document.php?id=451

Might be worth the extra bucks.
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