As far as I know what you say is correct, and I have found some interesting pricing rumors on the cards too:
- G1600L: GPU with 300 MHz, 128 Megs of GDR 256 bits 200 MHz, €500
- G1600M: GPU with 350 MHz, 128 Megs of GDR 256 bits 250 MHz, €650
- G1600H: GPU with 450 MHz, 256 Megs of GDR 256 bits 300 MHz, €1000
If those are the correct prices, thats damned expensive
The ATI R300 and NV30 cards will be very interesting when they are officially announced, as their (rumoured) specs also look very impressive:
ATI R300 Specs:
0.15 micron technology
350-450 Mhz core speed (rumours vary)
8 rendering pipelines textures processed per pipeline (4 pixels per pipe)
800 Mhz DDR memory speed
12,6 GB/s bandwidth
2 TruForm processing units
HydraVision support
DirectX 9 support (PixelShader 2.0, displacement mapping...)
HyperZ 3
256 MB of memory
Pixel fillrate 2.8 mil
Texel fillrate 8.4 mil
Support for 256 Bit memory
NV 30 Specs:
AGP 4x and 8x
Copper Core Gpu Processor 0.13 m default clock 450 MHz
73 million transistors
8 pipes
Quad Vertex Shaders
85 bone capable
Lightspeed Memory Architecture II
Quad Cache memory caching subsystem
Dual Z-buffers for greater compression without losses
visibility subsystem
NvAuto pre-charge
Advanced Anisotropic Filtering:
A new 12nvx mode that delivers improved subpixel coverage ,texture placement and quality.
12nvx mode should deliver 80% better subpixel coverage and placement than previous modes
