Is PixelPipelines or Memory Interface more important when choosing a graphics card?

[RegularX]

i'm in the market for a new one (between $100-$150) and are currently looking at two different cards. one has 8 PP and 2560bit MI. the other has 12PP and 128bit MI.

 

[Photomotoz]

Pipelines.

 

[Vegan]

Pipelines for sure.

 

[dafoomie]

Look at the benchmarks and compare the cards in your pricerange. A chart like this would be good:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/02/vga_charts_viii/page18.html

 

[Zing]

It depends. Higher resolutions and/or anti-aliasing will perform better with the higher memory performance of a 256bit interface.

It would be much easier to give advice if you just told us which two cards you were considering.

 

[RegularX]

well it's kind of too late since i already ordered the x1600 pro and it's being shipped. but here were the two i was considering:

MSI Radeon X1600PRO RX1600PRO:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814127201

XFX Geforce 6800XT:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814150130

like i said, i ended up going with the x1600 pro sinec it did not require it's own power supply and it had more pipelines (slighly slower memory clock and, like i said, lower interface). think i made the right move?

my PC's current specs are:
P4 3.4gHz w/HT
1024 Mb SDRAM PC3200
Radeon x300 SE PCI-E 128 Mb

i will probably upgrade the ram sometime this year too (if not the whole mechine).

 

[DuckM4n]

pipelines! its like have 4 arms, you can do so many more things that just 2 arms going fast