Ok just doing some thinging and ran 3DMark03 with my 9800Pro as a FireGL and it got: 5982 Ok well install newest Radeon 9800 Pro Driver and restart windows, and ran 3dMark03 again and got: 5973 I got thought this was very strange. All options were set to default so not sure if the FireGL drivers have more options turn off but i don't see how that is possible. It should have more options turned on to increase quality over proformance. So for 9800s and FireGL X2s They are Equal at gameing... Anybody want to test for X3?
FireGL D3D drivers are always based on older Catalysts and since we know that older 4.12 catalysts were considered somewhat speed champs, i wouldn't be suprised of the results if i were you... OpenGL is a completely different matter though - Catalysts should be faster in OpenGL because the gaming drivers are optimized for speed and not for quality like FireGLs. Also, be aware that several OpenGL games have problems when used with FireGL drivers (KOTOR, COD, etc...)
