Hrmmm... well, this could be good for ATi. Nvidia currently has a pretty good hold on the workstation market, I'd say, mostly because of their driver development for open-source OS'es. As of middle of last year, ATi's drivers for linux distro's weren't that great. Things have certainly changed in not only their drivers dept, however, as this release is proof of.

"Featuring increased engine and memory speeds, plus a redesigned board with a performance-enhancing copper fan, the FireGL X2-256t delivers up to 25% more processing power than its predecessor. Four geometry engines and eight parallel rendering pipelines power the board which comes with 256MB of graphics memory and dual DVI-I connectors."