I have since been completely unaware of development on the graphics cards front, but since most of my graphics needs are for GEM, I tought I'd ask here if anyone could recommend good recent cards that can drive two CRTs monitors (e.g. TwinView in the NVidia world) and has good openGL acceleration (for GEM performance.)
i have a fx5600xt (nvidia) but i get lower result with glxgears :
with my ati 9500 pro : around 5000 FPS
with my fx5600xt : 1300 FPS
on the other side, i don't think that ATI cards support anti-aliasing (FSAA 1,2,4). nvidia does. and finally, i never been able to extend my windows manager to use the other monitor. i've only been able to add a second head (DISPLAY=:0.1). so no 2d or 3d acceleration (XV) on the second head for me.
patrick