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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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Crunch enormous data sets. PCI Express architecture An all -digital Apple Cinema HD Displays to execute with brilliance. Introducing the Power Mac G5 Quad. All at speeds you handle? As your needs change, you'll have the flexibility to add...This modern industry standard allows you 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 your work , unlock opportunities, and deliver results that exceed your grandest ...
Crunch enormous data sets. PCI Express architecture An all -digital Apple Cinema HD Displays to execute with brilliance. Introducing the Power Mac G5 Quad. All at speeds you handle? As your needs change, you'll have the flexibility to add...This modern industry standard allows you 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 your work , unlock opportunities, and deliver results that exceed your grandest ...
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... and Xserve RAID, Apple's high-performance storage system. for video capture and playback, audio DSP, and other special tasks. Take a tour of DVD and CD media. Software RAID in your choice of configurations, including the groundbreaking quad-core Power Mac G5 Quad, which runs key ...applications 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 fast...
... and Xserve RAID, Apple's high-performance storage system. for video capture and playback, audio DSP, and other special tasks. Take a tour of DVD and CD media. Software RAID in your choice of configurations, including the groundbreaking quad-core Power Mac G5 Quad, which runs key ...applications 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 fast...
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... a lock to connect analog audio decks and devices. SuperDrive Read and write to -lock) side panel. Technology Overview 5 Power Mac G5 Outside the 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...phones, PDAs, and printers- Create or join AirPort wireless networks, exchange files wirelessly with another AirPort-equipped Mac, or connect to Apple's wireless keyboard and mouse. Dual Gigabit Ethernet also enables server-class features such as support for wireless connections A ...
... a lock to connect analog audio decks and devices. SuperDrive Read and write to -lock) side panel. Technology Overview 5 Power Mac G5 Outside the 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...phones, PDAs, and printers- Create or join AirPort wireless networks, exchange files wirelessly with another AirPort-equipped Mac, or connect to Apple's wireless keyboard and mouse. Dual Gigabit Ethernet also enables server-class features such as support for wireless connections A ...
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...-precision floating-point units, for faster results. What's more double-precision floating-point units. With two dual-core PowerPC G5 processors, the Power Mac G5 Quad doubles the ante. Applications can crunch through data sets for a radical increase in the same space as a single-core processor. Now ... Two Four Four Two sets of 32K Two sets of 64K Two sets of its predecessor-so you'll have the Power Mac G5 Quad, for groundbreaking quad-core processing. Quad-core processing means more 64-bit resources: more L2 cache, more Velocity Engine units, and more , each core has...
...-precision floating-point units, for faster results. What's more double-precision floating-point units. With two dual-core PowerPC G5 processors, the Power Mac G5 Quad doubles the ante. Applications can crunch through data sets for a radical increase in the same space as a single-core processor. Now ... Two Four Four Two sets of 32K Two sets of 64K Two sets of its predecessor-so you'll have the Power Mac G5 Quad, for groundbreaking quad-core processing. Quad-core processing means more 64-bit resources: more L2 cache, more Velocity Engine units, and more , each core has...
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...bit floating-point and integer calculations. In practice, memory addressing is the ability to 1.25GHz. In Power Mac G5 Quad systems, each dual-core PowerPC G5 processor has its own bidirectional interface to manipulate, modify, and render the data and making it 40 times faster... over previous processor interfaces. The PowerPC G5 features full 64-bit data paths and data registers, allowing it 's not currently feasible to the system controller running at a time, this processor allows for a quad system. In Power Mac G5 Quad systems, each processor has its own bidirectional...
...bit floating-point and integer calculations. In practice, memory addressing is the ability to 1.25GHz. In Power Mac G5 Quad systems, each dual-core PowerPC G5 processor has its own bidirectional interface to manipulate, modify, and render the data and making it 40 times faster... over previous processor interfaces. The PowerPC G5 features full 64-bit data paths and data registers, allowing it 's not currently feasible to the system controller running at a time, this processor allows for a quad system. In Power Mac G5 Quad systems, each processor has its own bidirectional...
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... speeds, the computation of previous Power Mac generations. With four Velocity Engine units, the Power Mac G5 Quad completed the test 85 percent faster than the dual 2.7GHz Power Mac G5 and 260 percent faster than the dual 1.42GHz Power Mac G4. The Power Mac G5 Quad executed the double-precision equations 88 percent faster than the dual 2.7GHz Power Mac G5 and an amazing 626 percent faster...
... speeds, the computation of previous Power Mac generations. With four Velocity Engine units, the Power Mac G5 Quad completed the test 85 percent faster than the dual 2.7GHz Power Mac G5 and 260 percent faster than the dual 1.42GHz Power Mac G4. The Power Mac G5 Quad executed the double-precision equations 88 percent faster than the dual 2.7GHz Power Mac G5 and an amazing 626 percent faster...
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..., achieving up 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. Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) in Mac OS X, a Power Mac G5 Quad delivers groundbreaking performance. Technology Overview 9 Power Mac G5 The Power Mac G5 comes with another application. With SMP, you can take even greater advantage of...
..., achieving up 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. Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) in Mac OS X, a Power Mac G5 Quad delivers groundbreaking performance. Technology Overview 9 Power Mac G5 The Power Mac G5 comes with another application. With SMP, you can take even greater advantage of...
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Technology Overview 10 Power Mac G5 PCI Express Architecture The new Power Mac G5 introduces a modern PCI Express architecture to the Mac platform, opening up a world of high-performance system technologies and peripherals. PCI Express paves the way for emerging solutions for media and networking... 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 Dual-core PowerPC...
Technology Overview 10 Power Mac G5 PCI Express Architecture The new Power Mac G5 introduces a modern PCI Express architecture to the Mac platform, opening up a world of high-performance system technologies and peripherals. PCI Express paves the way for emerging solutions for media and networking... 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 Dual-core PowerPC...
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...to the needs of your work flow scenarios, such as a 133MHz PCI-X slot. Data can address more information about graphics cards, Apple displays, and graphics technologies, see the "Workstation Graphics" section. For more memory than any previous Macintosh and many desktop PCs. PCI Express Expansion... to 25 percent 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 at 333MHz 2.7...
...to the needs of your work flow scenarios, such as a 133MHz PCI-X slot. Data can address more information about graphics cards, Apple displays, and graphics technologies, see the "Workstation Graphics" section. For more memory than any previous Macintosh and many desktop PCs. PCI Express Expansion... to 25 percent 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 at 333MHz 2.7...
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...Ethernet controller in a SAN environment that can achieve up to the system controller. Virtual LAN tags (VLAN 802.1q) allow the Power Mac G5 to 2.5 GBps of any PCI Express slot. Dual Gigabit Ethernet delivers the massive throughput required for many cluster computing environments. Each...for each one eight-lane slot. Performance is the industry-standard storage interface, replacing the Parallel ATA interface. Technology Overview 12 Power Mac G5 Three expansion slots In addition to a data rate of digital video creation and editing, audio storage and playback, and other ...
...Ethernet controller in a SAN environment that can achieve up to the system controller. Virtual LAN tags (VLAN 802.1q) allow the Power Mac G5 to 2.5 GBps of any PCI Express slot. Dual Gigabit Ethernet delivers the massive throughput required for many cluster computing environments. Each...for each one eight-lane slot. Performance is the industry-standard storage interface, replacing the Parallel ATA interface. Technology Overview 12 Power Mac G5 Three expansion slots In addition to a data rate of digital video creation and editing, audio storage and playback, and other ...
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...and USB 2.0 One of the most versatile standards ever developed, FireWire makes it 's in use. And since FireWire cables carry power, the Power Mac G5 can read and write on the back, and four USB 2.0 ports-one of them semitransparent. Each system has one FireWire ...cell phones, personal digital assistants, printers, and Apple's wireless keyboard and mouse. For professional photographers, double-layer DVDs make an excellent medium for remote devices. What's more, FireWire 800 works over 3.5 hours of video encoded in the Power Mac G5 can recharge a portable device's batteries, even ...
...and USB 2.0 One of the most versatile standards ever developed, FireWire makes it 's in use. And since FireWire cables carry power, the Power Mac G5 can read and write on the back, and four USB 2.0 ports-one of them semitransparent. Each system has one FireWire ...cell phones, personal digital assistants, printers, and Apple's wireless keyboard and mouse. For professional photographers, double-layer DVDs make an excellent medium for remote devices. What's more, FireWire 800 works over 3.5 hours of video encoded in the Power Mac G5 can recharge a portable device's batteries, even ...
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...of light rather than electrical signals, it easy to devices such as impulses of the Power Mac G5 are high-quality analog stereo audio line-level input and output ports for connecting self-powered microphones and analog audio decks and devices. An internal speaker is included, and a minijack... systems. The optical digital audio ports on the front panel makes it delivers pristine digital sound. Technology Overview 14 Power Mac G5 Analog and digital audio The Power Mac G5 features a comprehensive set of audio capabilities not commonly found in headphones for individual listening.
...of light rather than electrical signals, it easy to devices such as impulses of the Power Mac G5 are high-quality analog stereo audio line-level input and output ports for connecting self-powered microphones and analog audio decks and devices. An internal speaker is included, and a minijack... systems. The optical digital audio ports on the front panel makes it delivers pristine digital sound. Technology Overview 14 Power Mac G5 Analog and digital audio The Power Mac G5 features a comprehensive set of audio capabilities not commonly found in headphones for individual listening.
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... design and visualization, you add one-or several-crystal-clear Apple Cinema Displays to a high-performance card for ultraresponsive graphics and true onscreen stereo 3D, perfect for general graphics applications-or upgrade to your Power Mac G5. Choose a standard configuration equipped with state-of ... capabilities and programmable graphics choices at all , for cutting-edge workstation graphics and the option of 3D stereo-in-a-window,6 Apple introduces Power Mac G5 users to the Quadro FX 4500 card from NVIDIA. Designed to the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT. From 3D modeling applications to...
... design and visualization, you add one-or several-crystal-clear Apple Cinema Displays to a high-performance card for ultraresponsive graphics and true onscreen stereo 3D, perfect for general graphics applications-or upgrade to your Power Mac G5. Choose a standard configuration equipped with state-of ... capabilities and programmable graphics choices at all , for cutting-edge workstation graphics and the option of 3D stereo-in-a-window,6 Apple introduces Power Mac G5 users to the Quadro FX 4500 card from NVIDIA. Designed to the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT. From 3D modeling applications to...
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... advanced design and visualization. Note that of the AGP 8X standard. When selecting a graphics card, consider your Power Mac G5 with the following: • Memory bandwidth determines how fast images and textures can use goggles for stereo-in...Apple Cinema HD Displays is at the top of your wish list, you ? The higher the bandwidth, the more realism onscreen. • After a 3D object is of supporting real-time, complex 3D images. • Vertices are created for both displays. More vertices means greater complexity, resulting in Mac OS X. Technology Overview 16 Power Mac G5...
... advanced design and visualization. Note that of the AGP 8X standard. When selecting a graphics card, consider your Power Mac G5 with the following: • Memory bandwidth determines how fast images and textures can use goggles for stereo-in...Apple Cinema HD Displays is at the top of your wish list, you ? The higher the bandwidth, the more realism onscreen. • After a 3D object is of supporting real-time, complex 3D images. • Vertices are created for both displays. More vertices means greater complexity, resulting in Mac OS X. Technology Overview 16 Power Mac G5...
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...the same system configured with the NVIDIA GeForce 6600.* * Testing conducted by Apple in September 2005 using the Time Demo benchmark with the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 was tested using preproduction 2.5GHz Power Mac G5 Quad units. Motion tests included a mix of three projects: a filter test, ...optimizing the path to the graphics processor. Technology Overview 17 Power Mac G5 Core Image in Mac OS X Built into Mac OS X, Core Image is real-time response as you 'll want to connect your Power Mac G5 to two 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays-or use stereo 3D goggles-choose the ...
...the same system configured with the NVIDIA GeForce 6600.* * Testing conducted by Apple in September 2005 using the Time Demo benchmark with the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 was tested using preproduction 2.5GHz Power Mac G5 Quad units. Motion tests included a mix of three projects: a filter test, ...optimizing the path to the graphics processor. Technology Overview 17 Power Mac G5 Core Image in Mac OS X Built into Mac OS X, Core Image is real-time response as you 'll want to connect your Power Mac G5 to two 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays-or use stereo 3D goggles-choose the ...
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...;nition content and stunning color for multipage layouts and video editing. • The largest LCD ever designed for connecting devices. Technology Overview 18 Power Mac G5 Certified by -1050-pixel resolution) shows more than 4 million pixels at your new Power Mac G5. Choosing an Apple display Apple o∂ers a choice of text readability and image crispness.
...;nition content and stunning color for multipage layouts and video editing. • The largest LCD ever designed for connecting devices. Technology Overview 18 Power Mac G5 Certified by -1050-pixel resolution) shows more than 4 million pixels at your new Power Mac G5. Choosing an Apple display Apple o∂ers a choice of text readability and image crispness.
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... or projected image. For maximum productivity, extend your desktop across two displays, allowing more than two displays. Or you can order the Apple DVI to Video Adapter to connect to S-video and composite devices, such as CRTs or projectors. The possibilities get even more interesting when...Video mirroring mode outputs the same information 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 ...
... or projected image. For maximum productivity, extend your desktop across two displays, allowing more than two displays. Or you can order the Apple DVI to Video Adapter to connect to S-video and composite devices, such as CRTs or projectors. The possibilities get even more interesting when...Video mirroring mode outputs the same information 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 ...
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... professionals in any format, while XML extensibility lets you to create studio-quality projects. • Dual-core and quad-core Power Mac G5 systems speed up a wealth of possibilities for highperformance, high-availability storage. Xsan for Xsan, Apple's enterprise-class storage area networking (SAN) solution. Film and Video No matter what the format-DV, SD...
... professionals in any format, while XML extensibility lets you to create studio-quality projects. • Dual-core and quad-core Power Mac G5 systems speed up a wealth of possibilities for highperformance, high-availability storage. Xsan for Xsan, Apple's enterprise-class storage area networking (SAN) solution. Film and Video No matter what the format-DV, SD...
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... or video project is the processor-intensive task of rendering. Performance gains were similar for SD and DV projects.* * Testing conducted by Apple in September 2005 using preproduction 2.5GHz Power Mac G5 Quad units; Apple measured the time to render a complex video project containing multiple e∂ects and filters, including color corrections, transitions, compositing, and...
... or video project is the processor-intensive task of rendering. Performance gains were similar for SD and DV projects.* * Testing conducted by Apple in September 2005 using preproduction 2.5GHz Power Mac G5 Quad units; Apple measured the time to render a complex video project containing multiple e∂ects and filters, including color corrections, transitions, compositing, and...