This paper presents simulations of the texture development during cold rolling of fully pearlitic steel. In order to investigate the importance of including microstructural aspects into texture simulations the calculations were carried out with the FC Taylor Pearlite model which takes the lamellar microstructure into account and with the FC Taylor and LAMEL model which are dedicated for one phase materials. The results are compared with those for ULC steel. For both materials the LAMEL model results are in good agreement with experimental data, while for the pearlitic steel, the FC Taylor Pearlite model improves the predictions only slightly with respect to the FC Taylor model.