What's the difference between a texel and a pixel?

[Muerto]

Video cards always have two fill rates associated with them, x number of pixels/s and y number of texels/s. What's the difference between the two? Thanks guys.

 

[AdamK47]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=27&threadid=192748

 

[Muerto]

So a texel is just a pixel with texture added to it? If that's the case then I guess the texel fill rate is more important than the pixel one because virtually every game today uses multitexturing. Is that the general idea? Correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks.

 

[Goi]

Yup, that's the general idea.