1. A method for improving magnified texture-mapped pixel performance in a computational pipeline, comprising: generating two textured pixel addresses corresponding to two pixels; examining the two textured pixel addresses in order to determine if the two pixels correspond to a common set of texels; merging the two textured pixel addresses if said examining results in a common set of texels for the two pixels, wherein said merging operates to create a combined texel structure; generating texel data in response to receiving the combined texel structure; and filtering the texel data in order to generate a first and a second texture value.