Hagrid
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I was looking at video cards today and finally wanted to ask about the difference between ATI's 12(36 pixel shader) and Nvidia's 24 pipeline. What is the difference?
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ATI and Nvidia terms
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ShiningHolden
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"A pixel pipeline is a video card part that transfers pixel information. The more pixel pipelines, the faster the video card can process pixels." -- Wikipedia
Pixels are what you see on the screen, just, compiled to look nice.
"Pixel shaders are applied for each pixel. They are run on a pixel processor, which usually features much more processing power than its vertex-oriented counterpart. -- Wikipedia
The more pixel pipeline's a video card has, the more overall out put of pixel's you are receiving.
The more pixel shader's a video card has, the more shading, and effects in that nature the pixel output has.
What were the two video cards?
Pixels are what you see on the screen, just, compiled to look nice.
"Pixel shaders are applied for each pixel. They are run on a pixel processor, which usually features much more processing power than its vertex-oriented counterpart. -- Wikipedia
The more pixel pipeline's a video card has, the more overall out put of pixel's you are receiving.
The more pixel shader's a video card has, the more shading, and effects in that nature the pixel output has.
What were the two video cards?