ATI doesn't even pretend to offer suggestions that the Radeon is for high-end workstation graphics, so I would assume that their drivers are not optimised for it.
The other advantage of buying the Geforce2 is that there is a much larger installed user base here for support if you have problems.
All that said, I am looking at a Radeon 64DDR for myself, but I'm not going to MAya with it..
Hi i run a RADEON64 with MAYA and the only thing so far is that the Vertexpoints in modelling are only ONE pixel large, witch ofcourse makes them har to see... All video functions works great under W2K. The picture quality is much better then any Geforce i tried. But i think that a better choice for ONLY maya is the GVX1, witch support the HardwareOverlay feature that MAYA uses for PaintEffects and Artisan.