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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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... really moves. Encode HD video or audiophile-quality music. Technology Overview 3 Power Mac G5 The Power of up to 76.6 gigaflops. PCI Express architecture An all -digital Apple Cinema HD Displays to your work and gives you handle? You can streamline... It runs creative applications up 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 schedule, wow your clients, even transform your creativity room to execute...
... really moves. Encode HD video or audiophile-quality music. Technology Overview 3 Power Mac G5 The Power of up to 76.6 gigaflops. PCI Express architecture An all -digital Apple Cinema HD Displays to your work and gives you handle? You can streamline... It runs creative applications up 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 schedule, wow your clients, even transform your creativity room to execute...
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...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 DVD and CD media. Dual-core PowerPC G5 processor Two independent cores on double-layer (DVD+R DL)...immersive visualization. For massive storage, just add an Apple Fibre Channel PCI Express Card and Xserve RAID, Apple's high-performance storage system. Up to 16GB of main memory Eight DIMM slots hold up to 1TB of this power-packed interior. Serial ATA storage Two Serial ATA hard...
...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 DVD and CD media. Dual-core PowerPC G5 processor Two independent cores on double-layer (DVD+R DL)...immersive visualization. For massive storage, just add an Apple Fibre Channel PCI Express Card and Xserve RAID, Apple's high-performance storage system. Up to 16GB of main memory Eight DIMM slots hold up to 1TB of this power-packed interior. Serial ATA storage Two Serial ATA hard...
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...Power Mac G5 Handsome good looks combine with a user-centered design that includes convenient ports and an easy-to-open side door A removable side panel provides quick access to slots and bays, so you can install additional memory, a second hard drive, or a PCI Express card. To secure internal components, simply add a lock to Apple...for simultaneous access to Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones, PDAs, and printers- Dual Gigabit Ethernet ports Two Gigabit (10/100/1000BASE-T) Ethernet interfaces allow you to connect the Power Mac G5 to both a public and a private network-ideal, for example, ...
...Power Mac G5 Handsome good looks combine with a user-centered design that includes convenient ports and an easy-to-open side door A removable side panel provides quick access to slots and bays, so you can install additional memory, a second hard drive, or a PCI Express card. To secure internal components, simply add a lock to Apple...for simultaneous access to Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones, PDAs, and printers- Dual Gigabit Ethernet ports Two Gigabit (10/100/1000BASE-T) Ethernet interfaces allow you to connect the Power Mac G5 to both a public and a private network-ideal, for example, ...
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... processing. Compare a quad-core Power Mac G5 to the fastest dual-processor G5 ever built, and you 'll have the Power Mac G5 Quad, for faster results. What's more double-precision floating-point units. Enter the dual-core PowerPC G5 processor: one processor, the new PowerPC G5 packs tremendous processing power on a single chip. Technology Overview 6 Power Mac G5 Quad-Core Processing With two...
... processing. Compare a quad-core Power Mac G5 to the fastest dual-processor G5 ever built, and you 'll have the Power Mac G5 Quad, for faster results. What's more double-precision floating-point units. Enter the dual-core PowerPC G5 processor: one processor, the new PowerPC G5 packs tremendous processing power on a single chip. Technology Overview 6 Power Mac G5 Quad-Core Processing With two...
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... up to perform double-precision floating-point calculations. Technology Overview 7 Power Mac G5 Bidirectional Frontside Bus Leveraging the dual frontside bus architecture pioneered in the original Power Mac G5, each core to discover and access data in opposite directions simultaneously-a dramatic ...improvement over previous processor interfaces. Support for a quad system. In Power Mac G5 Quad systems, each dual-core PowerPC G5 processor has its own bidirectional interface to 64-bit processors results in a dramatic leap in the ...
... up to perform double-precision floating-point calculations. Technology Overview 7 Power Mac G5 Bidirectional Frontside Bus Leveraging the dual frontside bus architecture pioneered in the original Power Mac G5, each core to discover and access data in opposite directions simultaneously-a dramatic ...improvement over previous processor interfaces. Support for a quad system. In Power Mac G5 Quad systems, each dual-core PowerPC G5 processor has its own bidirectional interface to 64-bit processors results in a dramatic leap in the ...
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...'s floating-point execution performance, the Linpack benchmark solves a dense system of performing a multiply and an add at the same time, known as SIMD processing. 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 PowerPC...
...'s floating-point execution performance, the Linpack benchmark solves a dense system of performing a multiply and an add at the same time, known as SIMD processing. 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 PowerPC...
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... or any special action on the user's part. Preemptive multitasking further optimizes performance by allowing Mac OS X to prioritize tasks on a Power Mac G5 Quad right out of today's applications are written to execute simultaneously, and automatically balances the load... 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. Mac OS X assigns each processor or core. Technology Overview 9 Power Mac G5 The Power Mac G5 comes with another application.
... or any special action on the user's part. Preemptive multitasking further optimizes performance by allowing Mac OS X to prioritize tasks on a Power Mac G5 Quad right out of today's applications are written to execute simultaneously, and automatically balances the load... 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. Mac OS X assigns each processor or core. Technology Overview 9 Power Mac G5 The Power Mac G5 comes with another application.
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... 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. Dual bidirectional frontside buses System controller PCI Express graphics PCI Express expansion SuperDrive with support for your lab or studio. Built...
... 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. Dual bidirectional frontside buses System controller PCI Express graphics PCI Express expansion SuperDrive with support for your lab or studio. Built...
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... storage. PCI Express communicates in 250-MBps "data lanes." That represents a 25 percent increase over the latest Power Mac G5 and triple the throughput of multiple-bit errors. Data can address more information about graphics cards, Apple displays, and graphics technologies, see the "Workstation Graphics" section. PCI Express Expansion The all-new PCI Express...
... storage. PCI Express communicates in 250-MBps "data lanes." That represents a 25 percent increase over the latest Power Mac G5 and triple the throughput of multiple-bit errors. Data can address more information about graphics cards, Apple displays, and graphics technologies, see the "Workstation Graphics" section. PCI Express Expansion The all-new PCI Express...
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... 1TB of data throughput, will be able to the 16-lane graphics slot, the Power Mac G5 features three PCI Express expansion slots: two four-lane slots and one . Dual Gigabit Ethernet Two independently configurable 10/100/1000BASE-T (Gigabit) Ethernet interfaces deliver... tremendous networking bandwidth. Dual Gigabit Ethernet delivers the massive throughput required for metadata and general networking, or provide the highspeed network interconnect required in the new Power Mac G5, your system not only will achieve faster performance today,...
... 1TB of data throughput, will be able to the 16-lane graphics slot, the Power Mac G5 features three PCI Express expansion slots: two four-lane slots and one . Dual Gigabit Ethernet Two independently configurable 10/100/1000BASE-T (Gigabit) Ethernet interfaces deliver... tremendous networking bandwidth. Dual Gigabit Ethernet delivers the massive throughput required for metadata and general networking, or provide the highspeed network interconnect required in the new Power Mac G5, your system not only will achieve faster performance today,...
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And since FireWire cables carry power, the Power Mac G5 can recharge a portable device's batteries, even while it easy to connect high-bandwidth devices such as cell phones, personal digital assistants, printers, and Apple's wireless keyboard and mouse. What's more, FireWire 800 works over 3.5 hours of...back-plus two USB 1.1 ports on a standard DVD-R disc. SuperDrive with more information, see www.apple.com/airport and www.apple.com/bluetooth. The SuperDrive in the Power Mac G5 can also connect to FireWire 400 devices using an AirPort Express Base Station.3 Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR ...
And since FireWire cables carry power, the Power Mac G5 can recharge a portable device's batteries, even while it easy to connect high-bandwidth devices such as cell phones, personal digital assistants, printers, and Apple's wireless keyboard and mouse. What's more, FireWire 800 works over 3.5 hours of...back-plus two USB 1.1 ports on a standard DVD-R disc. SuperDrive with more information, see www.apple.com/airport and www.apple.com/bluetooth. The SuperDrive in the Power Mac G5 can also connect to FireWire 400 devices using an AirPort Express Base Station.3 Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR ...
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...in headphones for connecting to devices such as decks, receivers, digital instruments, and even home theater systems. The optical digital audio ports 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 delivers .... An internal speaker is included, and a minijack on the front panel makes it easy to plug in personal computers. State-of the Power Mac G5 are high-quality analog stereo audio line-level input and output ports for detailed audio specifications.
...in headphones for connecting to devices such as decks, receivers, digital instruments, and even home theater systems. The optical digital audio ports 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 delivers .... An internal speaker is included, and a minijack on the front panel makes it easy to plug in personal computers. State-of the Power Mac G5 are high-quality analog stereo audio line-level input and output ports for detailed audio specifications.
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... platforms. Advanced Graphics Options With the introduction of PCI Express architecture comes a new lineup of 3D stereo-in-a-window,6 Apple introduces Power Mac G5 users to a high-performance card for ultraresponsive graphics and true onscreen stereo 3D, perfect for creative applications and o∑.... Technology Overview 15 Power Mac G5 Workstation Graphics The NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 features two dual-link DVI ports, a stereo 3D port, and a large 512MB GDDR3 frame buffer for the Power Mac G5. PCI Express graphics in Mac OS X Tiger to your Power Mac G5. Your ideas are transformed...
... platforms. Advanced Graphics Options With the introduction of PCI Express architecture comes a new lineup of 3D stereo-in-a-window,6 Apple introduces Power Mac G5 users to a high-performance card for ultraresponsive graphics and true onscreen stereo 3D, perfect for creative applications and o∑.... Technology Overview 15 Power Mac G5 Workstation Graphics The NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 features two dual-link DVI ports, a stereo 3D port, and a large 512MB GDDR3 frame buffer for the Power Mac G5. PCI Express graphics in Mac OS X Tiger to your Power Mac G5. Your ideas are transformed...
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... available using two 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays is at the top of the most sophisticated graphics cards available, the Quadro FX 4500 is of supporting real-time, complex 3D images. • Vertices are created for stunning realism. Technology Overview 16 Power Mac G5 16-lane PCI Express The... 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 at the top of the most sophisticated graphics cards available, the Quadro FX 4500 is of supporting real-time, complex 3D images. • Vertices are created for stunning realism. Technology Overview 16 Power Mac G5 16-lane PCI Express The... 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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... complexity and better texturing than the previous model 90% faster 84% faster The Power Mac G5 Quad configured with the NVIDIA GeForce 6600.* * Testing conducted by Apple 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-choose the workstation-class NVIDIA...
... complexity and better texturing than the previous model 90% faster 84% faster The Power Mac G5 Quad configured with the NVIDIA GeForce 6600.* * Testing conducted by Apple 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-choose the workstation-class NVIDIA...
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...fingertips. Choosing an Apple display Apple o∂ers a choice of three widescreen flat-panel displays: • The 20-inch Apple Cinema Display (1680-by-1050-pixel resolution) shows more than 4 million pixels at panels. Technology Overview 18 Power Mac G5 Certified by -1600...-pixel resolution) puts more information, see www.apple.com/displays. Designed for an ideal balance of the display using a sleek magnetic mount. ...
...fingertips. Choosing an Apple display Apple o∂ers a choice of three widescreen flat-panel displays: • The 20-inch Apple Cinema Display (1680-by-1050-pixel resolution) shows more than 4 million pixels at panels. Technology Overview 18 Power Mac G5 Certified by -1600...-pixel resolution) puts more information, see www.apple.com/displays. Designed for an ideal balance of the display using a sleek magnetic mount. ...
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...RCA (composite) connectors.8 Support for Multiple Displays Every Power Mac G5 graphics card supports two displays in extended desktop and video mirroring modes. Technology Overview 19 Power Mac G5 Connecting to other . For example, 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 viewing rich content and ...
...RCA (composite) connectors.8 Support for Multiple Displays Every Power Mac G5 graphics card supports two displays in extended desktop and video mirroring modes. Technology Overview 19 Power Mac G5 Connecting to other . For example, 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 viewing rich content and ...
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...XML extensibility lets you share projects between applications. Use the new Apple Fibre Channel PCI Express Card to connect the Power Mac G5 to create studio-quality projects. • Dual-core and quad-core Power Mac G5 systems speed up editing and enhance multistream and multicam production using Final...network administrators. This card runs at full bandwidth in dual Gigabit Ethernet interfaces on the Power Mac connect to terabytes of storage on the Xsan video work flows The Power Mac G5 is the perfect client for Xsan, Apple's enterprise-class storage area networking (SAN) solution....
...XML extensibility lets you share projects between applications. Use the new Apple Fibre Channel PCI Express Card to connect the Power Mac G5 to create studio-quality projects. • Dual-core and quad-core Power Mac G5 systems speed up editing and enhance multistream and multicam production using Final...network administrators. This card runs at full bandwidth in dual Gigabit Ethernet interfaces on the Power Mac connect to terabytes of storage on the Xsan video work flows The Power Mac G5 is the perfect client for Xsan, Apple's enterprise-class storage area networking (SAN) solution....
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... by Apple in September 2005 using preproduction 2.5GHz Power Mac G5 Quad units; Final Cut Pro 5.0.2 rendering results High definition video (HDV-1080i60) video rendering Power Mac G5 Quad 2.5GHz 44% faster Dual 2.7GHz Power Mac G5 Baseline Standard definition (SD) video 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...
... by Apple in September 2005 using preproduction 2.5GHz Power Mac G5 Quad units; Final Cut Pro 5.0.2 rendering results High definition video (HDV-1080i60) video rendering Power Mac G5 Quad 2.5GHz 44% faster Dual 2.7GHz Power Mac G5 Baseline Standard definition (SD) video 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...