Tom's Hardware Guide has put up a review on the ATi FireGL X1 and Nvidia Quadro4 980XGL
Nvidia is under pressure. Following a long record of easy successes, ATi has suddenly responded with a technologically superior graphics chip. That's because, in the profitable consumer segment, the ATi Radeon 9700 Pro is several lengths ahead of the GeForce4 Ti4600. The superficial reworking of the interface from AGP4x to AGP8x that Nvidia signaled soon after with its "new" NV28 chip revision failed to bridge that gap. But anyone who draws hasty conclusions regarding OpenGL workstations is setting off down a slippery slope. Different rules apply here.Read more
