Diffrence between ATI 9800 XT and GL Fire?

[DeoMortis]

Whats the difference? besides the hundreds of dollars. I can't find any info.

[9mmCensor]

the GL Fire is a workstation card, used for cad or stuff like that... so it has special drivers and stuff. you dont want one for gaming.

[DeoMortis]

Ah.. ok, but otherwise not that different?

[9mmCensor]

Success in the OpenGL graphics card market does not just depend on the equipment. The bottom line is reliability. Workstation buyers often pay more than twice the price for an OpenGL card, despite the fact that the hardware reveals only tiny changes to its mainstream equivalent. The main difference is in the driver development.