Talk:AMD FirePro

message: 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:ScotXWt@lk 13:37, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  AMD FirePro (July 2014) 

message: Tagged for grammar problems. Falcomadol (talk) 22:38, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: should've used  tag. --116.48.170.227 (talk) 07:13, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Tagged for cleanup

message: What about the Diamond FireGLs? --tonsofpcs (Talk) 08:23, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title: Diamond Multimedia

message: 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)
thread_title:  Article misleading? 

message: Should the discontinued ones be mentioned in the table?  --202.71.240.18 11:03, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discontinued...? 

message: 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)
replies: text: At least for Linux, the "fglrx" driver is only updated every three months for FireGL cards and have "a higher level of qualification" compared to the Radeon driver versions released in the two months inbetween (the ATI Linux driver team lead Matthew Tippett told me) but are otherwise exactly the same for FireGL and Radeon cards, though there are different settings to choose from for CAD software. There has only been one driver for both for at least five years (when they started releasing proprietary drivers for Radeon cards). Maybe there is a connection to the very slow OpenGL performance with ATI cards compared to Windows prior to the display driver version 8.41.7 (would have been Catalyst 7.9) but then, this new OpenGL driver was implemented in the Windows *Radeon* Catalyst as well and improved the performance there too (though nowhere near as drastically). -- Darklock (talk) 17:51, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: FireGL drivers are not fully Catalyst

message: 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)
thread_title:  FireGL-UX