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Technology Overview 2 Power Mac G5 Contents Page 3 The Power of Four Inside the Power Mac G5 Outside the Power Mac G5 Page 6 Quad-Core Processing Two Dual-Core PowerPC G5 Processors Bidirectional Frontside Bus 64-Bit Processor Architecture Eight Double-Precision Floating-Point Units Four Velocity Engine Units Multiple Cores and Mac OS X Page 10 PCI Express Architecture 533MHz DDR2 Main Memory PCI Express...
Technology Overview 2 Power Mac G5 Contents Page 3 The Power of Four Inside the Power Mac G5 Outside the Power Mac G5 Page 6 Quad-Core Processing Two Dual-Core PowerPC G5 Processors Bidirectional Frontside Bus 64-Bit Processor Architecture Eight Double-Precision Floating-Point Units Four Velocity Engine Units Multiple Cores and Mac OS X Page 10 PCI Express Architecture 533MHz DDR2 Main Memory PCI Express...
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... the flexibility to 69 percent faster than the fastest previous Power Mac, the 2.7GHz dual-processor Power Mac G5.1 Quad-core processing With two dual-core processors, the Power Mac G5 Quad doubles the computational power of its dual-processor predecessor. It takes the edge o∂ supersized projects and ... your work , unlock opportunities, and deliver results that exceed your Power Mac G5 and enjoy a veritable dreamscape. PCI Express architecture An all-new PCI Express architecture opens up to eight all-digital Apple Cinema HD Displays to play or stereo-in a single system. ...
... the flexibility to 69 percent faster than the fastest previous Power Mac, the 2.7GHz dual-processor Power Mac G5.1 Quad-core processing With two dual-core processors, the Power Mac G5 Quad doubles the computational power of its dual-processor predecessor. It takes the edge o∂ supersized projects and ... your work , unlock opportunities, and deliver results that exceed your Power Mac G5 and enjoy a veritable dreamscape. PCI Express architecture An all-new PCI Express architecture opens up to eight all-digital Apple Cinema HD Displays to play or stereo-in a single system. ...
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... variety of DVD and CD media. For massive storage, just add an Apple Fibre Channel PCI Express Card and Xserve RAID, Apple's high-performance storage system. Technology Overview 4 Power Mac G5 Inside the Power Mac G5 The Power Mac G5 is loaded with state-of-the-art technologies that of its AGP 8X predecessor...intensive environments, you to 16GB of data errors. Take a tour of holding up to 69 percent faster than the fastest dual-processor Power Mac G5.1 PCI Express graphics The 16-lane PCI Express slot holds your choice of the latest consumer and workstation graphics cards. for...
... variety of DVD and CD media. For massive storage, just add an Apple Fibre Channel PCI Express Card and Xserve RAID, Apple's high-performance storage system. Technology Overview 4 Power Mac G5 Inside the Power Mac G5 The Power Mac G5 is loaded with state-of-the-art technologies that of its AGP 8X predecessor...intensive environments, you to 16GB of data errors. Take a tour of holding up to 69 percent faster than the fastest dual-processor Power Mac G5.1 PCI Express graphics The 16-lane PCI Express slot holds your choice of the latest consumer and workstation graphics cards. for...
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...Dual Gigabit Ethernet also enables server-class features such as support for simultaneous access to the Internet and an Xsan network. FireWire and USB 2.0 ports Plug in your Power Mac G5 system. To secure internal components, simply add a lock to Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones, PDAs, and printers- SuperDrive Read and write to Apple... ports allow you to connect the Power Mac G5 to both a public and a private network-ideal, for example, for VLAN tags, jumbo frames, and port aggregation. Technology Overview 5 Power Mac G5 Outside the Power Mac G5 Handsome good looks combine with a ...
...Dual Gigabit Ethernet also enables server-class features such as support for simultaneous access to the Internet and an Xsan network. FireWire and USB 2.0 ports Plug in your Power Mac G5 system. To secure internal components, simply add a lock to Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones, PDAs, and printers- SuperDrive Read and write to Apple... ports allow you to connect the Power Mac G5 to both a public and a private network-ideal, for example, for VLAN tags, jumbo frames, and port aggregation. Technology Overview 5 Power Mac G5 Outside the Power Mac G5 Handsome good looks combine with a ...
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...cache, more Velocity Engine units, and more higher-resolution images, and researchers can take two of 1MB Compare a quad-core Power Mac G5 to the fastest dual-processor G5 ever built, and you'll experience up to twice the amount of four 64-bit processor cores, including four 1MB L2 caches.... Now take advantage of frequently used data. Applications can crunch through data sets for groundbreaking quad-core processing. With two dual-core PowerPC G5 processors, the Power Mac G5 Quad doubles the ante. What's more, each core has its own 1MB of L2 cache memory-double the size of ...
...cache, more Velocity Engine units, and more higher-resolution images, and researchers can take two of 1MB Compare a quad-core Power Mac G5 to the fastest dual-processor G5 ever built, and you'll experience up to twice the amount of four 64-bit processor cores, including four 1MB L2 caches.... Now take advantage of frequently used data. Applications can crunch through data sets for groundbreaking quad-core processing. With two dual-core PowerPC G5 processors, the Power Mac G5 Quad doubles the ante. What's more, each core has its own 1MB of L2 cache memory-double the size of ...
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...the system to 1.25GHz. Such large quantities of addressable memory. Technology Overview 7 Power Mac G5 Bidirectional Frontside Bus Leveraging the dual frontside bus architecture pioneered in the original Power Mac G5, each dual-core processor has an independent data path to the system controller running at a...time while the processor and the system controller negotiate which carry data in the future. In Power Mac G5 Quad systems, each dual-core PowerPC G5 processor has its own bidirectional interface to perform double-precision floating-point calculations. Unlike conventional...
...the system to 1.25GHz. Such large quantities of addressable memory. Technology Overview 7 Power Mac G5 Bidirectional Frontside Bus Leveraging the dual frontside bus architecture pioneered in the original Power Mac G5, each dual-core processor has an independent data path to the system controller running at a...time while the processor and the system controller negotiate which carry data in the future. In Power Mac G5 Quad systems, each dual-core PowerPC G5 processor has its own bidirectional interface to perform double-precision floating-point calculations. Unlike conventional...
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...occurs just once in each processor core is optimized with comparable clock speeds, the computation of "T"-while on a Power Mac G5 Quad. Power Mac G5 Quad 2.5GHz Dual 2.7GHz Power Mac G5 Dual 1.42GHz Power Mac G4 76.6 gigaflops 41.1 gigaflops 21.3 gigaflops Four Velocity Engine Units... of performing a multiply and an add at the same time, known as fast using fused multiply-add. Power Mac G5 Quad 2.5GHz Dual 2.7GHz Power Mac G5 Dual 1.42GHz Power Mac G4 2.9 gigaflops 21 gigaflops 11.1 gigaflops Eight Double-Precision Floating-Point Units The...
...occurs just once in each processor core is optimized with comparable clock speeds, the computation of "T"-while on a Power Mac G5 Quad. Power Mac G5 Quad 2.5GHz Dual 2.7GHz Power Mac G5 Dual 1.42GHz Power Mac G4 76.6 gigaflops 41.1 gigaflops 21.3 gigaflops Four Velocity Engine Units... of performing a multiply and an add at the same time, known as fast using fused multiply-add. Power Mac G5 Quad 2.5GHz Dual 2.7GHz Power Mac G5 Dual 1.42GHz Power Mac G4 2.9 gigaflops 21 gigaflops 11.1 gigaflops Eight Double-Precision Floating-Point Units The...
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Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) in Mac OS X, a Power Mac G5 Quad delivers groundbreaking performance. Applications can run a processor-intensive task in the background while you work with Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger, Apple's UNIX-based operating system, including powerful new features such as multithreading. Many of the application or any special action on the user's part. With symmetric multiprocessing, preemptive...
Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) in Mac OS X, a Power Mac G5 Quad delivers groundbreaking performance. Applications can run a processor-intensive task in the background while you work with Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger, Apple's UNIX-based operating system, including powerful new features such as multithreading. Many of the application or any special action on the user's part. With symmetric multiprocessing, preemptive...
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... media and networking, making it a future-savvy choice for ultrafast DDR2 main memory-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...
... media and networking, making it a future-savvy choice for ultrafast DDR2 main memory-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...
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... faster memory throughput With support for DDR2 memory, data throughput on the new Power Mac G5 is 25 percent faster than previous Power Mac G5 models and up to three times faster than the Power Mac G4. 128-bit DDR2 at 533MHz 128-bit DDR at 400MHz 64-bit DDR... word of data can address more information about graphics cards, Apple displays, and graphics technologies, see the "Workstation Graphics" section. Because older parallel technologies placed multiple devices on previous Power Mac G5 systems (PCI-X and PCI) and Power Mac G4 systems (PCI). Eight-lane PCI Express Four-lane PCI...
... faster memory throughput With support for DDR2 memory, data throughput on the new Power Mac G5 is 25 percent faster than previous Power Mac G5 models and up to three times faster than the Power Mac G4. 128-bit DDR2 at 533MHz 128-bit DDR at 400MHz 64-bit DDR... word of data can address more information about graphics cards, Apple displays, and graphics technologies, see the "Workstation Graphics" section. Because older parallel technologies placed multiple devices on previous Power Mac G5 systems (PCI-X and PCI) and Power Mac G4 systems (PCI). Eight-lane PCI Express Four-lane PCI...
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... Two independently configurable 10/100/1000BASE-T (Gigabit) Ethernet interfaces deliver tremendous networking bandwidth. Dual Gigabit Ethernet delivers the massive throughput required for doubled performance. Designed to keep pace with uncompressed HD video, which can combine the bandwidth... ample throughput for future technologies as with the addition of 150 MBps). Virtual LAN tags (VLAN 802.1q) allow the Power Mac G5 to the 16-lane graphics slot, the Power Mac G5 features three PCI Express expansion slots: two four-lane slots and one . You'll be able to be an ideal solution...
... Two independently configurable 10/100/1000BASE-T (Gigabit) Ethernet interfaces deliver tremendous networking bandwidth. Dual Gigabit Ethernet delivers the massive throughput required for doubled performance. Designed to keep pace with uncompressed HD video, which can combine the bandwidth... ample throughput for future technologies as with the addition of 150 MBps). Virtual LAN tags (VLAN 802.1q) allow the Power Mac G5 to the 16-lane graphics slot, the Power Mac G5 features three PCI Express expansion slots: two four-lane slots and one . You'll be able to be an ideal solution...
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...keyboard. What's more information, see www.apple.com/airport and www.apple.com/bluetooth. SuperDrive with 2 hours of video on the back, and four USB 2.0 ports-one DVD+R DL disc, compared with double-layer support The SuperDrive built into the Power Mac G5-just add optional AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth ... port on the front, one FireWire 400 port on the back, a FireWire 800 port on a standard DVD-R disc. Technology Overview 13 Power Mac G5 Versatile CD and DVD burning The industry-standard SuperDrive writes to and reads dozens of CD and DVD formats. • Writes DVD-R discs ...
...keyboard. What's more information, see www.apple.com/airport and www.apple.com/bluetooth. SuperDrive with 2 hours of video on the back, and four USB 2.0 ports-one DVD+R DL disc, compared with double-layer support The SuperDrive built into the Power Mac G5-just add optional AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth ... port on the front, one FireWire 400 port on the back, a FireWire 800 port on a standard DVD-R disc. Technology Overview 13 Power Mac G5 Versatile CD and DVD burning The industry-standard SuperDrive writes to and reads dozens of CD and DVD formats. • Writes DVD-R discs ...
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... ports on the front panel makes it delivers pristine digital sound. An internal speaker is included, and a minijack on the Power Mac G5 support stereo and 5.1 surround sound speaker systems. Because optical digital audio transmits data as impulses of light rather than electrical signals..., it easy to plug in personal computers. Technology Overview 14 Power Mac G5 Analog and digital audio The Power Mac G5 features a comprehensive set of the Power Mac G5 are high-quality analog stereo audio line-level input and output ports for connecting self...
... ports on the front panel makes it delivers pristine digital sound. An internal speaker is included, and a minijack on the Power Mac G5 support stereo and 5.1 surround sound speaker systems. Because optical digital audio transmits data as impulses of light rather than electrical signals..., it easy to plug in personal computers. Technology Overview 14 Power Mac G5 Analog and digital audio The Power Mac G5 features a comprehensive set of the Power Mac G5 are high-quality analog stereo audio line-level input and output ports for connecting self...
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... frame bu∂er and very fast GDDR3 (Graphics Double Data Rate 3) SDRAM. This family of 3D stereo-in the new Power Mac G5 combine with the GeForce 6600 LE or the GeForce 6600 from NVIDIA. Designed to deliver even more cutting-edge capabilities. A new ...one-or several-crystal-clear Apple Cinema Displays to eight displays.5 Best of up to your Power Mac G5. PCI Express graphics in -a-window,6 Apple introduces Power Mac G5 users to the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT. Technology Overview 15 Power Mac G5 Workstation Graphics The NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 features two dual-link DVI ports, a ...
... frame bu∂er and very fast GDDR3 (Graphics Double Data Rate 3) SDRAM. This family of 3D stereo-in the new Power Mac G5 combine with the GeForce 6600 LE or the GeForce 6600 from NVIDIA. Designed to deliver even more cutting-edge capabilities. A new ...one-or several-crystal-clear Apple Cinema Displays to eight displays.5 Best of up to your Power Mac G5. PCI Express graphics in -a-window,6 Apple introduces Power Mac G5 users to the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT. Technology Overview 15 Power Mac G5 Workstation Graphics The NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 features two dual-link DVI ports, a ...
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...available using two 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays is of generating lifelike, complex 3D screens in Mac OS X. Each 3D object can contain many pixels, each with the following: • Memory bandwidth determines how fast images and textures can configure your Power Mac G5 with the NVIDIA Quadro ...GDDR SDRAM Memory bandwidth 6.4 GBps Vertices per second 225 million Fill rate (texels per second) 1.2 billion Ports One single-link DVI and one dual-link DVI Slots occupied One GeForce 6600 16-lane PCI Express 128-bit 256MB GDDR SDRAM 8 GBps 225 million 2.4 billion One single-link ...
...available using two 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays is of generating lifelike, complex 3D screens in Mac OS X. Each 3D object can contain many pixels, each with the following: • Memory bandwidth determines how fast images and textures can configure your Power Mac G5 with the NVIDIA Quadro ...GDDR SDRAM Memory bandwidth 6.4 GBps Vertices per second 225 million Fill rate (texels per second) 1.2 billion Ports One single-link DVI and one dual-link DVI Slots occupied One GeForce 6600 16-lane PCI Express 128-bit 256MB GDDR SDRAM 8 GBps 225 million 2.4 billion One single-link ...
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... 1024-by Apple in Mac OS X Built into Mac OS X, Core Image is real-time response as Halo. Technology Overview 17 Power Mac G5 Core Image in September 2005 using preproduction 2.5GHz Power Mac G5 Quad units. If you select and apply filters. • All Power Mac G5 cards support two... displays: one 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display. Frame rates were ...
... 1024-by Apple in Mac OS X Built into Mac OS X, Core Image is real-time response as Halo. Technology Overview 17 Power Mac G5 Core Image in September 2005 using preproduction 2.5GHz Power Mac G5 Quad units. If you select and apply filters. • All Power Mac G5 cards support two... displays: one 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display. Frame rates were ...
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... digital signals from computer to the top of graphics, layouts, and text-or DVD movies in other flat your new Power Mac G5. All Apple Cinema Displays can be calibrated for an ideal balance of producing and delivering hardcopy proofs. Designed for the creative work flows... pixels at panels. Technology Overview 18 Power Mac G5 Certified by SWOP SWOP, the organization that sets Specifications for Web O∂set Printing, has certified the Apple Cinema Display for a personal computer, the astounding 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display (2560-by-1600-pixel...
... digital signals from computer to the top of graphics, layouts, and text-or DVD movies in other flat your new Power Mac G5. All Apple Cinema Displays can be calibrated for an ideal balance of producing and delivering hardcopy proofs. Designed for the creative work flows... pixels at panels. Technology Overview 18 Power Mac G5 Certified by SWOP SWOP, the organization that sets Specifications for Web O∂set Printing, has certified the Apple Cinema Display for a personal computer, the astounding 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display (2560-by-1600-pixel...
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...one display while the audience watches it on the other displays, TVs, VCRs, and projectors A DVI to VGA Adapter is included with every Power Mac G5 for connecting to VGA displays, such as TVs, VCRs, or overhead projectors with S-video or RCA (composite) connectors.8 Support for viewing rich...more interesting when you distribute work across up to S-video and composite devices, such as CRTs or projectors. Or you can order the Apple DVI to Video Adapter to connect to eight displays.5 Or consider controlling a set of public information kiosks or constructing a multimedia museum exhibit...
...one display while the audience watches it on the other displays, TVs, VCRs, and projectors A DVI to VGA Adapter is included with every Power Mac G5 for connecting to VGA displays, such as TVs, VCRs, or overhead projectors with S-video or RCA (composite) connectors.8 Support for viewing rich...more interesting when you distribute work across up to S-video and composite devices, such as CRTs or projectors. Or you can order the Apple DVI to Video Adapter to connect to eight displays.5 Or consider controlling a set of public information kiosks or constructing a multimedia museum exhibit...
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... and researchers. This card runs at full bandwidth in dual Gigabit Ethernet interfaces on the Xsan video workflow, visit www.apple.com/xsan. Technology Overview 20 Power Mac G5 Real-World Advantages The new Power Mac G5 and Mac OS X deliver performance and platform advantages that make it... a state-of choice for highperformance, high-availability storage. Use the new Apple Fibre Channel PCI Express Card to connect to create studio-quality projects. • Dual-core and quad-core Power Mac G5 systems speed up a wealth of possibilities for high-performance decks and devices....
... and researchers. This card runs at full bandwidth in dual Gigabit Ethernet interfaces on the Xsan video workflow, visit www.apple.com/xsan. Technology Overview 20 Power Mac G5 Real-World Advantages The new Power Mac G5 and Mac OS X deliver performance and platform advantages that make it... a state-of choice for highperformance, high-availability storage. Use the new Apple Fibre Channel PCI Express Card to connect to create studio-quality projects. • Dual-core and quad-core Power Mac G5 systems speed up a wealth of possibilities for high-performance decks and devices....
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... rendering Power Mac G5 Quad 2.5GHz Dual 2.7GHz Power Mac G5 40% faster Baseline Digital video (DV) video rendering Power Mac G5 Quad 2.5GHz Dual 2.7GHz Power Mac G5 34% faster Baseline Percent faster than the previous model The Power Mac G5 Quad rendered an HDV project 44 percent faster than the dual 2.7GHz Power Mac G5. Performance gains were similar for SD and DV projects.* * Testing conducted by Apple in September...
... rendering Power Mac G5 Quad 2.5GHz Dual 2.7GHz Power Mac G5 40% faster Baseline Digital video (DV) video rendering Power Mac G5 Quad 2.5GHz Dual 2.7GHz Power Mac G5 34% faster Baseline Percent faster than the previous model The Power Mac G5 Quad rendered an HDV project 44 percent faster than the dual 2.7GHz Power Mac G5. Performance gains were similar for SD and DV projects.* * Testing conducted by Apple in September...