x800xl question

[lodingi]

why does every description of the radeon x800xl say "up to 16 pipes"? i thought 16 pipes was an automatic for this card.

 

[Astral Abyss]

Examples?

 

[lodingi]

here's a quoted description


Radeon X800 Technology Specifications

* 160 million transistors on 0.13 micron low-k fabrication process

* Up to sixteen extreme parallel pixel pipelines

* Six programmable vertex shader pipelines

* 256-bit quad-channel GDDR3 memory interface

* AGP 8X support or PCI Express ™ support SmartShader™ HD

* Support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware

* DirectX® 9.0 Vertex Shaders.....................etc etc

 

[aldamon]

Because that description describes the entire X800 series. The X800 Pro is part of the X800 series and it has only 12 pipelines.