Talk:ATI FireGL
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[edit] Diamond Multimedia
What about the Diamond FireGLs? --tonsofpcs (Talk) 08:23, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
- AFAIK, it was Diamond's subsidiary, but sold it to ATI which was seeking a good "Pro-level" team (to match nVidia's Quadro line, but I don't remember which came first to market) Rhe br 22:03, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Article misleading?
This point:
- The FireGL cards support antialiased points and lines (unlike FSAA, antialiasing only applies to the points and lines), quad-buffered stereo, two-sided lighting, Hardware-Accelerated Clip Planes (6 in FireGL X3-256), dedicated overlay planes buffer (Maya benefits from this). Though, it isn't very clear that the 'features' are present only on FireGL cards or disabled via the drivers on Radeon products.
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)
