Nvidia chipset pipeline confusion ... ?

8 months back i bought this graphics card for extremely light gaming ( read , almost no gaming ) just as an accesory inside my PC . the box mentioned 4 pixels .. the XFX site specs are -


Nvidia 6200 LE AGP


Memory Bandwidth


13.3 Gb/s


Memory Interface


64-bits


Vertices Per Second


300 Million


Memory Date Rate


333 MHz


Textures per Pixel


4


RAMDACs


400 MHz


Fill Rate


1.6 Billion Texels/sec.


Pixels per Clock (peak) 2


Clock rate


350 MHz


Memory Clock


533 MHz


Chipset


GeForce 6200 LE


Memory


256 MB


Bus Type


AGP 8X


Memory Type


DDR2


Memory Bus


64 bit


Output


VGA


Highlighted Features


HDTV ready , TV Out ..


questions -


A ) some mentioned it has 2 pixel piplines so i asked xfx help desk 3 times . they replied it has 4 pipelines as far as they know !! they make it .. what is as far as they know mean ?


B ) can a same chipset shipped by NVidia ( in this case 6200 ) have pipelines shut of by vendor ( XFX ) ?


C ) can one trust Nvidia/ATI ?

Nvidia chipset pipeline confusion ... ?
A. it depends on how the manufacturer makes it, 2 pixel pipelines is REALLY outdated these days.


B. Yes.


C. Yes (my video card is from Nvidia)
Reply:Remember that the GeForce 6200 and the GeForce 6200LE are DIFFERENT video cards, in which in your ase, the 6200 has 4 pixel pipelines and the 6200LE has TWO pixel pipelines.





If I remember correctly, yes they can. I remember that there is actually no 6200LE reference board made by NVidia, it was simply made by the third party manufacturers.





Yes, I trust them both. But since they're both business, they do some sort of sneaky practices here and then.
Reply:Maybe you or help desk is referring to different item.





I don't see why they want to do that.





Sure.





Get a 8 or 9 series!!!

easter cards