How did I miss this: PhotoShop CS4 is GPU-accelerated on FirePro cards, same as Quadros

Not sure how I missed this one - but as I was posting my test render for MachStudio Pro running on a FireGL V8650, YouTube recommended other videos that might interest me.  Three of these revolved around using FirePro cards to accelerate PhotoShop CS4.  Turns out that FirePro cards accelerate PhotoShop CS4 as much as the very hyped Nvidia Quadro cards, because the GPGPU acceleration in PhotoShop (and After Effects) is based on industry-standard OpenGL, not anything proprietary (i.e. not Cuda). All of the FirePro cards enable real-time image rotation, zooming, and panning, and makes changes to the view instantaneous and smooth. The FirePro GPU also accelerates on-screen, anti-aliased compositing of both 2D and 3D content, brush resizing and brushstroke preview, 3D movement, high-dynamic- range tone mapping, and color conversion.

ATI just didn’t make a lot of noise about this GPU acceleration. In any case, check out this video showing GPU acceleration of zooming in PhotoShop CS4 using a FirePro V5700. The screen on the left that zooms smoothly is with acceleration. The right is without. (Produced by the VAR Acube in Japan).