2MB on-die cache alone would take up more then the quoted 100 million transistors of the entire chip.
Four 400MHz RRAMDAC's on-die?! The cost would be extremely high, and take up valuable die-space for a feature that the overwhelmingly vast majority of the market would not utilize. No, they would clearly have at least two RAMDAC's off-die which would necessitate a slower RAMDAC speed for those.
Plus having it on-die would indicate that even the lowest end G1000 would have the capability to drive 4 monitors simultaneously, clearly that would put in out of the price bracket of the low end or even mainstream. Whereas if it's off-die the extra RAMDAC's could easily be cut out of the PCB design for part of the G1000 series.
64bit color-maybe. There is industry support for it due to extra transparency effects.
But there is asolutely no industry support even in the high end 3D animation/CAD markets for 96/128bit support. They are not going to include features that are not even remotely desired and have virtually no benefits with some very significant drawbacks.
It makes no mention of a new eTV product based on the G1000, despite Matrox previously stating that the next eTV product would play a prominent role in their lineup of graphics cards.
It also states it's optimized for the OSX, that seems pretty damn unlikely considering that Matrox has previously stated they had stopped development of mainstream graphics cards for the MAC platform, though professional-level and video editing cards are still produced for the Mac's.
Matrox historically has always been extremely quiet about upcoming products, they've alsways been excessively cautious about even the smallest things being leaked.... so it seems very uncharacteristic of them to make such a blatantly obvious mistake as publishing specs on the G1000 on their own web-site even if only for a short period of time.
The fact that some of their specs are blatantly impossible, others are clearly ridiculous if they hope to even touch anything other then the professional market, and a design the necessitates an extremely poor price/performance ratio in anything outside if the high end, and the fact that blatant leaks like this is completely uncaracteristic Matrox all point to the obvious fact that this is a FAKE.
A fake done by someone that evidently has little understanding of the market, and little understanding of what's necessary to incorporate some of the claimed features.
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