3DItalia claims to have received some specifications and pictures from an anonymous canadian source that display the R300 GPU from ATI. The specs sound familiar and impressive at the same time. On the other hand today is April 1st... Read more... The R300 GPU The board itself - looks quite similar to the Radeon 8500 layout... Specifications Radeon 9500: AGP 4x/8x 128 MB of DDR-SDRAM 425 MHz Maximum bandwidth of 13.2 GB/s (thanks also to the adoption of Hyper-Z 3) ATI Rage Theater 2 chip for MPEG2 decoding 450Mhz RAMDAC for maximum resolutions of 2048x1536 @ 100Hz Specifications R300 GPU: Core: 0.13 µm process clocked at 425 MHz | 90 million transistors integrated Max. Memory: 256MB DDR-SDRAM 8 rendering pipelines with 4 texture units Fillrate: 3.4 MPixels/s, 13.6 MTextures/s 160 million triangles/s Full support for DirectX 9.1 (PixelShader 2.0, displacement mapping...) (Oh really?) Hyper-Z 3 2 TruForm units for the rendering of surfaces of 3D objects (Pixel Tapestry 3) 2 SmartShader units each equipped with 1 Vertex and 1 PixelShader unit (Charisma Engine 3) SmoothVision 2: FSAA with moderate loss of performance also running at high resolutions Sounds neat but I only believe it when I hold a card in my hands...