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I moved the old article to AMD FirePro and rewrote the introduction: 2014-07-02. I would like to further remove some of the old crap... User:ScotXW t@lk 13:37, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
Tagged for grammar problems. Falcomadol ( talk) 22:38, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
What about the Diamond FireGLs? -- tonsofpcs ( Talk) 08:23, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
This point:
Isn't particularly true. People can and do run their Radeon's with the FireGL drivers. This is potentially illegal of course but my point is that it's is indeed fairly easy to ascertain whether these features are hardware or software (drivers) dependent. I believe they're mostly software Nil Einne 09:51, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Should the discontinued ones be mentioned in the table? -- 202.71.240.18 11:03, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
after soft-modded, what will X2300 become?
The new FireGL V3600 / V5600 / V7600 / V8600 / V8650 were announced today http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543%7E118747,00.html
Take note in the specs, the FireGL V7600 has specs like no other currently announced gaming/desktop variant, with the full 320 SPUs, but only 256bit memory interface. This is likely the HD 2900Pro shown first in workstation form, where it can get top dollar for that very large and expensive R600 chip.
Updated the list accordingly.
http://ati.amd.com/products/pdf/ATI_FireGL_AutoDetect_Whitepaper.pdf
After talking to some ATI people directly involved, I've been told that the FireGL drivers for OpenGL were poorly structured and very buggy when they bought FireGL. Those drivers have stayed shipping for quite some time, and are still part of the FireGL driver. The FireGL cards are only intended to support "certified" applications, and not to support gaming. Meanwhile, Direct3D support is similar to that of the Radeon. Thus, playing OpenGL games on FireGL is a bad idea.
I also know that ATI has been, and are still, working towards unifying drivers and making a modern, from-scratch OpenGL driver work for Radeons and FireGL. That effort is apparently not yet done, but parts of it has shipped. Presumably, Vista and 64-bit support are throwing wrenches into the timing of that.
I can't name the source, but if you've used the FireGL or ATI OpenGL drivers, you probably will know what I'm talking about. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jwatte ( talk • contribs) 19:00, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
This may be worth adding to the main article.
The FireGL-UX high-end graphics adapter, that is used in HP PARISC workstations of type C3750, was based on ATI’s FireGL2 board, often used in Intel i386 PCs. It provides full OpenGL hardware acceleration under HP’s X server and is binary compatible with the Visualize FX10pro adapter. Details here http://www.openpa.net/pa-risc_graphics.html#firegl —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.24.34.29 ( talk) 17:56, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
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I moved the old article to AMD FirePro and rewrote the introduction: 2014-07-02. I would like to further remove some of the old crap... User:ScotXW t@lk 13:37, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
Tagged for grammar problems. Falcomadol ( talk) 22:38, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
What about the Diamond FireGLs? -- tonsofpcs ( Talk) 08:23, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
This point:
Isn't particularly true. People can and do run their Radeon's with the FireGL drivers. This is potentially illegal of course but my point is that it's is indeed fairly easy to ascertain whether these features are hardware or software (drivers) dependent. I believe they're mostly software Nil Einne 09:51, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Should the discontinued ones be mentioned in the table? -- 202.71.240.18 11:03, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
after soft-modded, what will X2300 become?
The new FireGL V3600 / V5600 / V7600 / V8600 / V8650 were announced today http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543%7E118747,00.html
Take note in the specs, the FireGL V7600 has specs like no other currently announced gaming/desktop variant, with the full 320 SPUs, but only 256bit memory interface. This is likely the HD 2900Pro shown first in workstation form, where it can get top dollar for that very large and expensive R600 chip.
Updated the list accordingly.
http://ati.amd.com/products/pdf/ATI_FireGL_AutoDetect_Whitepaper.pdf
After talking to some ATI people directly involved, I've been told that the FireGL drivers for OpenGL were poorly structured and very buggy when they bought FireGL. Those drivers have stayed shipping for quite some time, and are still part of the FireGL driver. The FireGL cards are only intended to support "certified" applications, and not to support gaming. Meanwhile, Direct3D support is similar to that of the Radeon. Thus, playing OpenGL games on FireGL is a bad idea.
I also know that ATI has been, and are still, working towards unifying drivers and making a modern, from-scratch OpenGL driver work for Radeons and FireGL. That effort is apparently not yet done, but parts of it has shipped. Presumably, Vista and 64-bit support are throwing wrenches into the timing of that.
I can't name the source, but if you've used the FireGL or ATI OpenGL drivers, you probably will know what I'm talking about. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jwatte ( talk • contribs) 19:00, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
This may be worth adding to the main article.
The FireGL-UX high-end graphics adapter, that is used in HP PARISC workstations of type C3750, was based on ATI’s FireGL2 board, often used in Intel i386 PCs. It provides full OpenGL hardware acceleration under HP’s X server and is binary compatible with the Visualize FX10pro adapter. Details here http://www.openpa.net/pa-risc_graphics.html#firegl —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.24.34.29 ( talk) 17:56, 7 February 2011 (UTC)