ATI Introduces FireGL V5000 110
karvind writes "Folks at Tomshardware> are running a review of ATI's new FireGL V5000. The card's X700 processor, code named R410GL, is based on a 110-nanometer process and the card sports eight pixel pipelines, six geometry engines, 128 MB of GDDR3 memory, dual DVI connectors for multi-display applications and dual link support for 9 megapixels displays. Anandtech also posted a review."
How do these compare (Score:4, Interesting)
Are there any benchmarks comparing regular video cards versus these graphic workstation cards on modelling? Also, how do these cards do in games? Do these cards perhaps do worse in games ( optimizations toward different types of rendering, like more photo-realistic hardware rendering that isn't that distinguishable for games but is for 3d work )
Re:Pointless benchmark? (Score:4, Interesting)
The first linux drivers ATI released were for their firegl line of workstation cards. You could hack them to work with the normal cards, but for quite a while now ATI has provided drivers that work with all the cards. In fact, you can read anandtech's review of ATI and nVidia cards under Linux here [anandtech.com].