As you may remember we were the first site to post a working set of the 6.13.10.6052 beta drivers for the ATI Radeon series. Initial findings showed that these are the most recommendable ones for most users. As with some beta sets before the 6052 include reference for the R300 GPU... Read more... The atiixpag.inf declares the registry codes for the driver as well as some general hardware information. From this information given alone it is concludable that ATI already has working samples of the R300 GPU. The .inf file tells also that the R300 will be able to host up to 256MB memory on board! See for yourself: R200 a.k.a Radeon 8500: [ati2mtag_R200.GeneralConfigData]
MaximumDeviceMemoryConfiguration=128
MaximumNumberOfDevices=4
R300 a.k.a ???: [ati2mtag_R300.GeneralConfigData]
MaximumDeviceMemoryConfiguration=256
MaximumNumberOfDevices=4
Unfortunately information about ATI's next gen chip aiming for DirectX 9 compatibility is very rare. We will learn more about it in the future - that is for sure... Thanks to ReactorCritical for pointing it out.