GeForce FX - 8 Pixel Pipelines Or Just 4???

Published by

I first saw this news article @ 3dchipset.com! and is now slowly spreading across the net! so here's 3dchipset.com version by G`Rilla

Now this IS VERY, VERY INTERESTING. To say the least....The inquirer is (he hemmm...) "reporting" that the FX GPU does not have 8 pixel pipelines but only 4. Here's the key rip...

An Nvidia technical marketing manager confirmed to us that Geforce FX has 4 Pipelines and 2 Texture Memory Units that can results with 8 textures per clock but only in multitexturing.

Holy Hell Batman, now that IS a revelation! It was actually The Tech Report that sent me to the inquirer in the first place. Here is rip from their news posting on this...

After seeing this report at The Inquirer, we asked NVIDIA for clarification: Does the GeForce FX have four rendering pipes with two texture units each or eight with one each, as the world was led to believe?

They asked NVIDIA and were told that...

3dchipset.com!