Quoting Jason404
@Bobby
In your previous article you said "PC gaming isn’t impossible on the FirePro V8750, but it certainly isn’t ideal, and it is hardly the task that this GPU was designed for.". Sorry, but this is a fail-statement. The GPU is the same, (and I still all the hardware is too).
Fail-statement? Do you realize what you just said? Even at a driver level, FirePro GPUs are STILL not designed for gaming. Trust me, ATI does not develop this hardware so people can softmod. Not to mention, a soft-modded v8750 will STILL not compare in numbers to it's desktop counterpart. Why? Because at a hardware level, like it or not, they are in fact, different.
Quoting Jason404
It is very expensive to develop GPUs, and they are not going to make a special version for such a limited market. It already costs a lot to develop the special drivers.
Limited market? Are you serious? Do you even understand how many studios that are in this country, heck, in California alone, that have copious workstations for animators, modelers, artists, that are all powered by workstation GPUs? There is no 'small market' for workstation GPUs. And this hardware isn't limited to animation and VFX studios. Television studios, military, medical imaging (which is one of the biggest industries for graphics today), architecture and machining firms all rely on workstation hardware. The enthusiast GPU market is huge, but I'm willing to bet that the workstation GPU market is not far behind.
They make money. Oh, yes, they do. It makes workstation GPU development a worthy cause. Studios are replacing hardware regularly. The film industry is still seeing a boom, and studios are still sprouting up all over. They're selling units, and trust me, they have every reason to manufacture a seperate piece of hardware for this market.
Oh, and leave Mert alone! He's a good guy.