Pipeline Amounts

[Karamas]

How come nividia has cards with 24 pixel pipelines and Ati is only at 16......and how come none of the cards have more than 6 vertex shaders???

[OneCool]

The X1800xt and the 7800GTX has 8 vertex shaders.


edited:had to do some searching on the 7800.I wasnt sure about it

[Thermopylae_480]

How come nividia has cards with 24 pixel pipelines and Ati is only at 16......and how come none of the cards have more than 6 vertex shaders???

Different approaches to different problems. Each company finds there own way around similiar problems. Some solutions work better in some cases, while others may be lacking becuase of one solution. They pretty much even out in performance in the end though. The X1800 with its 16 pipes supposedly gets better image quality while the 7800 gets faster fps. So the only way you can make a decsion with the two cards is asking, "what is most important to you."