Quote Originally Posted by Turok
That reminds me how the Prescotts back then had more pipelines than the FX and because of the excessive pipelines they were slower.
Maybe more pipelines isnt better, and ATi is doing the right thing by sacrificing the expensive pipes for more clocks.

Its nothing like cpu's what so ever. Basicly a cpu has one pipeline, on that pipeline it has so many stages, the Prescotts have a load of stages somewhere in the 20's which allows for massive clock speeds but it takes longer delivering them. The Amd is a lot more efficient, a lot lower stages and now we are seeing higher clocking Amd's into 2.8 and soon 3ghz with the fx-59.