Hear hear.

hehe, yea, like the R350/360 supports OpenGL 2.0, before OpenGL 2.0 was ever published.

That's an easier one to call though. Because, due to OGL specification works, if you don't support it in hardware... as long as you introduce a software workaround you can state you fully support OGL2.0 (or whichever) Like in the recent Cat release where they put in the rlease the following: New to this specification are GLSL, non-power-of-two-textures, separate stencil, multiple render targets, and point sprites ATI have no hardware level capability of non-power-of-two-textures, but they have introduced a driver element to emulate it in software, so they fully support it.

I'll give them their due, the 5.3's at least finally improved their lackluster OpenGL performance. At least its visible on my 9800 Pro.

Unfortunately, I've just dumped my 9800Pro for a 6800GT... I couldn't wait any longer to upgrade and the X800XL in AGP flavour was just taking too long. But glad to hear that the long-promised OGL improvements are finally making it into the drivers. Good news for my next upgrade :)

If you went AGP, you did the right thing by getting the 6800GT. ATI's AGP X800 XL is still outragious in pricing. I remember a while back we were told the X800XL would be their $299 card. I can't locate a single AGP X800XL for under $350.