Guessing a bit here, but seems how it is touted as a cad or game
engineering, I bet it is similiar to game cards, without the faster clock
cycles and fast memory, that gamers "niche" are thirsty for, and would give
"life" to older Technology (last years models of game chips)...
It is all Marketing anywho, if they can get these accepted as
engineering/design cards. just 1-2 years ago I was spec'd a cad machine
with more or less a Geforce 2 mx 32 meg card as "the awesome GFX card for
Cad..." Lol I laughed for 'special pricing upgrade" of 280 bucks they
wanted, when 64 meg mx's were like 50 bucks...
I just dont know where this fits the DX stuff, old cards revisited, would it
do new instructions that they didnt do when initially sold? (GF2 MX cards
were like DX6-or-7 compliant, IIRC... dont know as much about ATI's
stuff...)
> This is actually a notebook related question, as I am looking at my
> next purchase of a notebook, but is there any reason why the ATI Fire
> GL woudn't work with current DX9 sims? The ATI website mentions
> OpenGL optimized drivers, with no mention of DX9 compatibility, but I
> imagine the Fire GL is just a Radeon with extra features. Does
> anyone have any experience with this, either in the mobile or desktop
> version?
> Stephen
