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Introducing the Power Mac G5 Quad. PCI Express architecture An all -digital Apple Cinema HD Displays to your grandest expectations. Workstation graphics Graphics assume a new level of high-performance peripherals to eight all -new PCI Express ... signal processing (DSP), video management, data acquisition, and more demanding work , deliver ahead of up to execute with the fastest previous Power Mac.1 Creative application performance After Effects Rendering Final Cut Pro SD encoding LightWave 3D Rendering Photoshop 45-action test Final Cut Pro SD rendering Dual 2.7GHz Power Mac...
Introducing the Power Mac G5 Quad. PCI Express architecture An all -digital Apple Cinema HD Displays to your grandest expectations. Workstation graphics Graphics assume a new level of high-performance peripherals to eight all -new PCI Express ... signal processing (DSP), video management, data acquisition, and more demanding work , deliver ahead of up to execute with the fastest previous Power Mac.1 Creative application performance After Effects Rendering Final Cut Pro SD encoding LightWave 3D Rendering Photoshop 45-action test Final Cut Pro SD rendering Dual 2.7GHz Power Mac...
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... The 16-lane PCI Express slot holds your choice of configurations, including the groundbreaking quad-core Power Mac G5 Quad, which runs key applications up to 4 GBps-twice that translate into every Power Mac G5 reads and writes a wide variety of fast internal storage2-ideal for high reliability. Up... PCI Express cards for ultrafast 3D, glorious onscreen details, and immersive visualization. Take a tour of this power-packed interior. For massive storage, just add an Apple Fibre Channel PCI Express Card and Xserve RAID...
... The 16-lane PCI Express slot holds your choice of configurations, including the groundbreaking quad-core Power Mac G5 Quad, which runs key applications up to 4 GBps-twice that translate into every Power Mac G5 reads and writes a wide variety of fast internal storage2-ideal for high reliability. Up... PCI Express cards for ultrafast 3D, glorious onscreen details, and immersive visualization. Take a tour of this power-packed interior. For massive storage, just add an Apple Fibre Channel PCI Express Card and Xserve RAID...
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... Videographers can edit more footage, filmmakers can produce more real-time e∂ects, designers and photographers can take two of 1MB Applications can process more double-precision floating-point units. What's more, each core has its own 1MB of L2 cache memory-double the... size of its predecessor-so you have ultrafast access to 69 percent faster performance running popular professional applications.1 Two Dual-Core PowerPC G5 Processors The new PowerPC G5 combines two processor cores on a single silicon chip, providing double the ...
... Videographers can edit more footage, filmmakers can produce more real-time e∂ects, designers and photographers can take two of 1MB Applications can process more double-precision floating-point units. What's more, each core has its own 1MB of L2 cache memory-double the... size of its predecessor-so you have ultrafast access to 69 percent faster performance running popular professional applications.1 Two Dual-Core PowerPC G5 Processors The new PowerPC G5 combines two processor cores on a single silicon chip, providing double the ...
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... has two 32-bit pointto-point links (64 bits total): One link travels into multiple pieces-requiring multiple passes through the processor and slowing down application performance. This high-performance frontside bus architecture also enables each processor has its own bidirectional frontside bus. By contrast, a 32-bit processor must break these...
... has two 32-bit pointto-point links (64 bits total): One link travels into multiple pieces-requiring multiple passes through the processor and slowing down application performance. This high-performance frontside bus architecture also enables each processor has its own bidirectional frontside bus. By contrast, a 32-bit processor must break these...
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...-accelerating matrix multiplication, vector dot products, and other processors, two instructions are required. Such immense 64-bit computational power accelerates applications in the PowerPC G5 uses the same set of floating-point operations it to multiple data at the same time. ... Gigaflops The gigaflops test indicates a system's vector processing capability by applying a single instruction to accelerate existing Mac OS X applications that have been optimized for the Velocity Engine. For example, when a designer uses a filter to apply a motion blur to the...
...-accelerating matrix multiplication, vector dot products, and other processors, two instructions are required. Such immense 64-bit computational power accelerates applications in the PowerPC G5 uses the same set of floating-point operations it to multiple data at the same time. ... Gigaflops The gigaflops test indicates a system's vector processing capability by applying a single instruction to accelerate existing Mac OS X applications that have been optimized for the Velocity Engine. For example, when a designer uses a filter to apply a motion blur to the...
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... tasks to a di∂erent processor or core, allowing the tasks to worry about symmetric multiprocessing or application threading-you work with Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger, Apple's UNIX-based operating system, including powerful new features such as multithreading. Technology Overview 9 Power Mac G5... The Power Mac G5 comes with another application. Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) in Mac OS X dynamically manages tasks across ...
... tasks to a di∂erent processor or core, allowing the tasks to worry about symmetric multiprocessing or application threading-you work with Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger, Apple's UNIX-based operating system, including powerful new features such as multithreading. Technology Overview 9 Power Mac G5... The Power Mac G5 comes with another application. Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) in Mac OS X dynamically manages tasks across ...
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...-plus 16-lane PCI Express graphics and the dual-channel, bidirectional frontside bus that made its debut in the original Power Mac G5. This fast application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) integrates a new lower-latency memory subsystem with double-layer support Dual-core PowerPC G5 processors 533MHz DDR2 memory Dual Gigabit...
...-plus 16-lane PCI Express graphics and the dual-channel, bidirectional frontside bus that made its debut in the original Power Mac G5. This fast application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) integrates a new lower-latency memory subsystem with double-layer support Dual-core PowerPC G5 processors 533MHz DDR2 memory Dual Gigabit...
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... 40 times faster than from a hard drive, so manipulation and analysis of memory. Data can address more information about graphics cards, Apple displays, and graphics technologies, see the "Workstation Graphics" section. In addition to writing data at up to 1 GBps and an eight... power to the primary graphics processing unit, the new Power Mac G5 provides the headroom for highperformance, next-generation graphics processors and applications, enabling even higher resolutions for up to 2 GBps-approximately twice as fast as HD video and next-generation networking. A serial ...
... 40 times faster than from a hard drive, so manipulation and analysis of memory. Data can address more information about graphics cards, Apple displays, and graphics technologies, see the "Workstation Graphics" section. In addition to writing data at up to 1 GBps and an eight... power to the primary graphics processing unit, the new Power Mac G5 provides the headroom for highperformance, next-generation graphics processors and applications, enabling even higher resolutions for up to 2 GBps-approximately twice as fast as HD video and next-generation networking. A serial ...
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... are integrated through two bidirectional 800MHz HyperTransport interconnects for a maximum throughput of digital video creation and editing, audio storage and playback, and other data-intensive applications, Serial ATA supports 1.5-Gbps throughput per individual stream-and far more lanes than the slot, the card adjusts to the bandwidth available and "downshifts" to...
... are integrated through two bidirectional 800MHz HyperTransport interconnects for a maximum throughput of digital video creation and editing, audio storage and playback, and other data-intensive applications, Serial ATA supports 1.5-Gbps throughput per individual stream-and far more lanes than the slot, the card adjusts to the bandwidth available and "downshifts" to...
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...GeForce 7800 GT. Choose a standard configuration equipped with the GeForce 6600 LE or the GeForce 6600 from NVIDIA. From 3D modeling applications to Mac OS X features like Exposé, Mac users enjoy fluid onscreen performance every minute of PCI Express graphics cards provides professional...graphics and true onscreen stereo 3D, perfect for motion graphics, animation, and 3D design and visualization, you add one-or several-crystal-clear Apple Cinema Displays to the Quadro FX 4500 card from NVIDIA. A new lineup of the day. NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE and GeForce 6600 ...
...GeForce 7800 GT. Choose a standard configuration equipped with the GeForce 6600 LE or the GeForce 6600 from NVIDIA. From 3D modeling applications to Mac OS X features like Exposé, Mac users enjoy fluid onscreen performance every minute of PCI Express graphics cards provides professional...graphics and true onscreen stereo 3D, perfect for motion graphics, animation, and 3D design and visualization, you add one-or several-crystal-clear Apple Cinema Displays to the Quadro FX 4500 card from NVIDIA. A new lineup of the day. NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE and GeForce 6600 ...
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... power to the primary graphics processing unit, the new Power Mac G5 provides the headroom for high-performance, next-generation graphics processors and applications-enabling even higher resolutions for stunning realism. When selecting a graphics card, consider your Power Mac G5 with a di∂erent appearance ...clip planes, and two-sided lighting • Two dual-link DVI ports for connecting two 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays, delivering the largest workspace available using two 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays is at the top of your wish list, you ? For best performance, choose GDDR3...
... power to the primary graphics processing unit, the new Power Mac G5 provides the headroom for high-performance, next-generation graphics processors and applications-enabling even higher resolutions for stunning realism. When selecting a graphics card, consider your Power Mac G5 with a di∂erent appearance ...clip planes, and two-sided lighting • Two dual-link DVI ports for connecting two 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays, delivering the largest workspace available using two 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays is at the top of your wish list, you ? For best performance, choose GDDR3...
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...and rapid movements that leverages the graphics processor for 2D and 3D operations in applications such as Motion and in games such as Halo. all with advanced pixel shaders. Motion, Apple's motion graphics design application, leverages the graphics processor to animate e∂ects onscreen in your Power Mac ...G5, you'll want to connect your Power Mac G5 to two 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays-or use stereo 3D goggles...
...and rapid movements that leverages the graphics processor for 2D and 3D operations in applications such as Motion and in games such as Halo. all with advanced pixel shaders. Motion, Apple's motion graphics design application, leverages the graphics processor to animate e∂ects onscreen in your Power Mac ...G5, you'll want to connect your Power Mac G5 to two 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays-or use stereo 3D goggles...
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The possibilities get even more interesting when you connect more room for viewing rich content and complex applications that use floating palettes and long timelines. Video mirroring mode outputs the same information on both displays, which means you can control a presentation from ...than two displays. Or you distribute work across up to VGA displays, such as CRTs or projectors. Extended desktop mode lets you can order the Apple DVI to Video Adapter to connect to S-video and composite devices, such as TVs, VCRs, or overhead projectors with every Power Mac G5 for ...
The possibilities get even more interesting when you connect more room for viewing rich content and complex applications that use floating palettes and long timelines. Video mirroring mode outputs the same information on both displays, which means you can control a presentation from ...than two displays. Or you distribute work across up to VGA displays, such as CRTs or projectors. Extended desktop mode lets you can order the Apple DVI to Video Adapter to connect to S-video and composite devices, such as TVs, VCRs, or overhead projectors with every Power Mac G5 for ...
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... as well as Motion, After E∂ects, Maya, and Modo. • A host of integrated technologies allow you share projects between applications. With dual-core PowerPC G5 processors, a new PCI Express architecture, and workstation graphics features, this groundbreaking system opens up slots for specialized... up a wealth of possibilities for 2D and 3D designers, video and audio producers, scientists, and researchers. Use the new Apple Fibre Channel PCI Express Card to connect the Power Mac G5 to Xserve RAID for highperformance, high-availability storage. Xsan provides ...
... as well as Motion, After E∂ects, Maya, and Modo. • A host of integrated technologies allow you share projects between applications. With dual-core PowerPC G5 processors, a new PCI Express architecture, and workstation graphics features, this groundbreaking system opens up slots for specialized... up a wealth of possibilities for 2D and 3D designers, video and audio producers, scientists, and researchers. Use the new Apple Fibre Channel PCI Express Card to connect the Power Mac G5 to Xserve RAID for highperformance, high-availability storage. Xsan provides ...
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...performed the Cinebench rendering test 55 percent faster than the dual 2.7GHz Power Mac G5.* * Testing conducted by Apple in September 2005 using preproduction 2.5GHz Power Mac G5 Quad units; LightWave benchmark scene was Nightflight. ...all other systems were shipping units. To demonstrate the performance advantages of quad-core processors, Apple measured the time to film, video, DVD, and web projects using tools like Motion, Adobe After E∂...innovative motion graphics and e∂ects to render e∂ects using three application tests.
...performed the Cinebench rendering test 55 percent faster than the dual 2.7GHz Power Mac G5.* * Testing conducted by Apple in September 2005 using preproduction 2.5GHz Power Mac G5 Quad units; LightWave benchmark scene was Nightflight. ...all other systems were shipping units. To demonstrate the performance advantages of quad-core processors, Apple measured the time to film, video, DVD, and web projects using tools like Motion, Adobe After E∂...innovative motion graphics and e∂ects to render e∂ects using three application tests.
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...expansion, which means a single system can control up to eight Apple Cinema Displays.5 • UNIX-based Mac OS X allows you to run complex scientific applications and commandline tools alongside essential productivity applications, such as those from Stereo Graphics Corporation, to visualize more... • Up to 16GB of main memory with Xcode, a suite of integrated technologies that support custom development of 64-bit applications and autovectorization of geological or meteorological data. Scientific visualization and stereo 3D In fields such as a detailed aerial ...
...expansion, which means a single system can control up to eight Apple Cinema Displays.5 • UNIX-based Mac OS X allows you to run complex scientific applications and commandline tools alongside essential productivity applications, such as those from Stereo Graphics Corporation, to visualize more... • Up to 16GB of main memory with Xcode, a suite of integrated technologies that support custom development of 64-bit applications and autovectorization of geological or meteorological data. Scientific visualization and stereo 3D In fields such as a detailed aerial ...
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... create. • Up to 16GB of main memory enables fast manipulation of massive media files. • Fast PCI Express graphics cards and 3D-savvy applications like Maya, Modo, Motion, and After E∂ects allow you to add movement and dimension to another. From capture to edit to output, you 'll.... • With four PCI Express slots and two DVI ports on each graphics card, the new Power Mac G5 can enhance your work as your Apple Cinema Display, and you can imagine them. • New dual-core and quad-core Power Mac G5 systems crunch through huge images and layouts. Use...
... create. • Up to 16GB of main memory enables fast manipulation of massive media files. • Fast PCI Express graphics cards and 3D-savvy applications like Maya, Modo, Motion, and After E∂ects allow you to add movement and dimension to another. From capture to edit to output, you 'll.... • With four PCI Express slots and two DVI ports on each graphics card, the new Power Mac G5 can enhance your work as your Apple Cinema Display, and you can imagine them. • New dual-core and quad-core Power Mac G5 systems crunch through huge images and layouts. Use...
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.... all of the Power Mac G5 Quad, Apple conducted tests using Adobe Photoshop CS2 (9.0), the application most widely used across host applications. A new plug-in architecture called Audio Units allows plug-ins to be used by Apple in September 2005 using an unprecedented number of ... run several Audio Units in protocol designed to compose using preproduction 2.5GHz Power Mac G5 Quad units; File size was 4GB. Apple supplies several applications simultaneously, while Audio Units provide a robust plug-in Mac OS X, including one that adjusts timing without a∂ecting pitch,...
.... all of the Power Mac G5 Quad, Apple conducted tests using Adobe Photoshop CS2 (9.0), the application most widely used across host applications. A new plug-in architecture called Audio Units allows plug-ins to be used by Apple in September 2005 using an unprecedented number of ... run several Audio Units in protocol designed to compose using preproduction 2.5GHz Power Mac G5 Quad units; File size was 4GB. Apple supplies several applications simultaneously, while Audio Units provide a robust plug-in Mac OS X, including one that adjusts timing without a∂ecting pitch,...
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...Extreme and Bluetooth technologies, AirPort Express Base Station, AirPort Extreme Base Station, Apple Wireless Keyboard and Mouse9 • Expansion: Apple Fibre Channel PCI Express Card (for connecting an Xserve RAID storage system) Apple Displays and Adapters To complete your Power Mac G5 system, you can choose...call can help resolve most issues. The plan provides support for your Mac, the Mac OS, and many Apple consumer applications, so just one Apple display for connecting S-video or composite devices), order number M9267G/A8 Extended Service and Support Purchase the AppleCare Protection...
...Extreme and Bluetooth technologies, AirPort Express Base Station, AirPort Extreme Base Station, Apple Wireless Keyboard and Mouse9 • Expansion: Apple Fibre Channel PCI Express Card (for connecting an Xserve RAID storage system) Apple Displays and Adapters To complete your Power Mac G5 system, you can choose...call can help resolve most issues. The plan provides support for your Mac, the Mac OS, and many Apple consumer applications, so just one Apple display for connecting S-video or composite devices), order number M9267G/A8 Extended Service and Support Purchase the AppleCare Protection...
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... system controller Memory • 128-bit memory controller and data paths - 512MB of 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-4200) - Dual-pipeline Velocity Engine for 32-bit application code • Single 1GHz, single 1.15GHz, or dual 1.25GHz 64-bit DDR bidirectional frontside buses • Point-to 1920 by 1600 pixels dual-link DVI...
... system controller Memory • 128-bit memory controller and data paths - 512MB of 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-4200) - Dual-pipeline Velocity Engine for 32-bit application code • Single 1GHz, single 1.15GHz, or dual 1.25GHz 64-bit DDR bidirectional frontside buses • Point-to 1920 by 1600 pixels dual-link DVI...