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pixel pipelines Last modified: Wednesday, October 18, 2006
The part of a video card that transfers pixel information. The amount of pixel pipelines a graphics card has can have a great impact on the speed of the image rendering. The more pixel pipelines, the faster the video card can process pixels. A card with eight pipelines can process twice as many pixels as a card of the same speed with four pipelines.
Panther Products: What is a Graphics Card? The graphics card is responsible for delivering the image you see on your PC monitor. Its GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) processes the machine code and changes it into a signal to the monitor. There are many factors to a graphics card. Choosing one can be a tricky business these days as there is so much technology that is different in each new graphics card release. Sharky Extreme Reporting on the latest hardware and software technology for the PC enthusiast.	Related Categories 3-D Graphics Hardware Video Adapters Related Terms 3-D graphics dual head card GPU graphics accelerator graphics adapter graphics card pixel render video accelerator video adapter video card