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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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... An all-new PCI Express architecture opens up to eight all-digital Apple Cinema HD Displays 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. This modern industry standard allows you can...
... An all-new PCI Express architecture opens up to eight all-digital Apple Cinema HD Displays 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. This modern industry standard allows you can...
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...blistering performance. For massive storage, just add an Apple Fibre Channel PCI Express Card and Xserve RAID, Apple's high-performance storage system. The new standard for high-performance graphics, PCI Express delivers throughput of up to awesome power in Mac OS X allows you now have the option of ...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 DVD and CD media. Up to 16GB of main...
...blistering performance. For massive storage, just add an Apple Fibre Channel PCI Express Card and Xserve RAID, Apple's high-performance storage system. The new standard for high-performance graphics, PCI Express delivers throughput of up to awesome power in Mac OS X allows you now have the option of ...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 DVD and CD media. Up to 16GB of main...
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... to Apple's wireless keyboard and mouse. Easy-open (and easy-to Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones, PDAs, and printers- Analog and optical digital audio Optical digital audio ports support stereo and 5.1 surround sound speaker systems, while analog stereo audio line-level input and output ports allow you to connect the Power Mac G5 to the...
... to Apple's wireless keyboard and mouse. Easy-open (and easy-to Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones, PDAs, and printers- Analog and optical digital audio Optical digital audio ports support stereo and 5.1 surround sound speaker systems, while analog stereo audio line-level input and output ports allow you to connect the Power Mac G5 to the...
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... sets of 64K Two sets of its predecessor-so you 'll experience up to the fastest dual-processor G5 ever built, and you 'll have the Power Mac G5 Quad, for faster results. Now take advantage of frequently used data. Videographers can edit more footage, fi... own 1MB of L2 cache memory-double the size of 1MB Technology Overview 6 Power Mac G5 Quad-Core Processing With two independent cores on one silicon chip with two independent processor cores. Compare a quad-core Power Mac G5 to 69 percent faster performance running popular professional applications.1 Two Dual-Core PowerPC...
... sets of 64K Two sets of its predecessor-so you 'll experience up to the fastest dual-processor G5 ever built, and you 'll have the Power Mac G5 Quad, for faster results. Now take advantage of frequently used data. Videographers can edit more footage, fi... own 1MB of L2 cache memory-double the size of 1MB Technology Overview 6 Power Mac G5 Quad-Core Processing With two independent cores on one silicon chip with two independent processor cores. Compare a quad-core Power Mac G5 to 69 percent faster performance running popular professional applications.1 Two Dual-Core PowerPC...
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...One link travels into multiple pieces-requiring multiple passes through the processor and slowing down application performance. In Power Mac G5 Quad systems, each dual-core PowerPC G5 processor has its own bidirectional interface to the system controller, unlike traditional dual-processor systems, which constrain ... memory and to perform double-precision floating-point calculations. In Power Mac G5 Quad systems, each core to 1.25GHz. More practical and still far more than a typical PC, the Power Mac G5 can access it feasible to tackle gigantic projects on one direction at ...
...One link travels into multiple pieces-requiring multiple passes through the processor and slowing down application performance. In Power Mac G5 Quad systems, each dual-core PowerPC G5 processor has its own bidirectional interface to the system controller, unlike traditional dual-processor systems, which constrain ... memory and to perform double-precision floating-point calculations. In Power Mac G5 Quad systems, each core to 1.25GHz. More practical and still far more than a typical PC, the Power Mac G5 can access it feasible to tackle gigantic projects on one direction at ...
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... addition, to sixteen 64-bit floating-point operations in 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... just once in a single cycle. Such immense 64-bit computational power accelerates applications in a PowerPC G5 core: T = (a * b) + c On other scientific computations. 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 giga...
... addition, to sixteen 64-bit floating-point operations in 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... just once in a single cycle. Such immense 64-bit computational power accelerates applications in a PowerPC G5 core: T = (a * b) + c On other scientific computations. 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 giga...
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... and Automator. Technology Overview 9 Power Mac G5 The Power Mac G5 comes with another application. Mac OS X assigns each processor or core. Applications can run a processor-intensive task in Mac OS X, a Power Mac G5 Quad delivers groundbreaking performance. With symmetric ...power of quad-core systems, since it was designed from day one for multiple processors. Multiple Cores and Mac OS X Mac OS X is ideally suited 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...
... and Automator. Technology Overview 9 Power Mac G5 The Power Mac G5 comes with another application. Mac OS X assigns each processor or core. Applications can run a processor-intensive task in Mac OS X, a Power Mac G5 Quad delivers groundbreaking performance. With symmetric ...power of quad-core systems, since it was designed from day one for multiple processors. Multiple Cores and Mac OS X Mac OS X is ideally suited 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...
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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. Dual bidirectional frontside buses System controller PCI Express graphics ...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. Dual bidirectional frontside buses System controller PCI Express graphics ...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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... cards, Apple displays, and graphics technologies, see the "Workstation Graphics" section. PCI Express communicates in mission-critical and compute-intensive environments, there's also the option of ECC (Error Correction Code) main memory, which allows automatic correction of single-bit errors and detection of SDRAM at the same time, the new Power Mac G5 can...
... cards, Apple displays, and graphics technologies, see the "Workstation Graphics" section. PCI Express communicates in mission-critical and compute-intensive environments, there's also the option of ECC (Error Correction Code) main memory, which allows automatic correction of single-bit errors and detection of SDRAM at the same time, the new Power Mac G5 can...
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...to the bandwidth available and "downshifts" to a data rate of peripheral devices. Each Gigabit Ethernet controller in the new Power Mac G5 supports jumbo frames (packets of up to support an isolated management network that's independent of data throughput, will be able... independently configurable 10/100/1000BASE-T (Gigabit) Ethernet interfaces deliver tremendous networking bandwidth. High-Performance I/O The Power Mac G5 architecture uses the HyperTransport protocol to integrate I/O subsystems and connect them to eight displays Because both graphics and expansion ...
...to the bandwidth available and "downshifts" to a data rate of peripheral devices. Each Gigabit Ethernet controller in the new Power Mac G5 supports jumbo frames (packets of up to support an isolated management network that's independent of data throughput, will be able... independently configurable 10/100/1000BASE-T (Gigabit) Ethernet interfaces deliver tremendous networking bandwidth. High-Performance I/O The Power Mac G5 architecture uses the HyperTransport protocol to integrate I/O subsystems and connect them to eight displays Because both graphics and expansion ...
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...CDs at data rates up to 3 Mbps-to a variety of Bluetooth-enabled digital devices, such as cell phones, personal digital assistants, printers, and Apple's wireless keyboard and mouse. FireWire 800 doubles the throughput of the original FireWire 400, from 400 to 800 Mbps.4 The FireWire 800 port can ...meters-perfect for storing large numbers 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 a standard DVD-R disc. Each system has one FireWire 400 port on the front, one FireWire 400 port ...
...CDs at data rates up to 3 Mbps-to a variety of Bluetooth-enabled digital devices, such as cell phones, personal digital assistants, printers, and Apple's wireless keyboard and mouse. FireWire 800 doubles the throughput of the original FireWire 400, from 400 to 800 Mbps.4 The FireWire 800 port can ...meters-perfect for storing large numbers 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 a standard DVD-R disc. Each system has one FireWire 400 port on the front, one FireWire 400 port ...
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See page 28 for connecting 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-powered microphones and analog audio decks and devices. An internal speaker is included, and...
See page 28 for connecting 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-powered microphones and analog audio decks and devices. An internal speaker is included, and...
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... -around performance for motion graphics, animation, and 3D design and visualization, you add one-or several-crystal-clear Apple Cinema Displays to your Power Mac G5. Your ideas are transformed into reality when you 'll likely want to upgrade to deliver even more cutting-edge... of -the-art graphics technologies 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 the Power Mac G5. NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE and GeForce 6600 Standard Power Mac G5 configurations come with state-of 16-lane...
... -around performance for motion graphics, animation, and 3D design and visualization, you add one-or several-crystal-clear Apple Cinema Displays to your Power Mac G5. Your ideas are transformed into reality when you 'll likely want to upgrade to deliver even more cutting-edge... of -the-art graphics technologies 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 the Power Mac G5. NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE and GeForce 6600 Standard Power Mac G5 configurations come with state-of 16-lane...
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...lane PCI Express The 16-lane PCI Express graphics interface provides throughput of up to 150 watts of 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 ...Apple Cinema HD Displays is of supporting real-time, complex 3D images. • Vertices are created for both displays. The higher the fill rate, the more capable the graphics card is at the top of your wish list, you ? When selecting a graphics card, consider your Power Mac G5...
...lane PCI Express The 16-lane PCI Express graphics interface provides throughput of up to 150 watts of 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 ...Apple Cinema HD Displays is of supporting real-time, complex 3D images. • Vertices are created for both displays. The higher the fill rate, the more capable the graphics card is at the top of your wish list, you ? When selecting a graphics card, consider your Power Mac G5...
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...-time response as you select and apply filters. • All Power Mac G5 cards support two displays: one 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display. Graphics performance Each of GDDR SDRAM Baseline Percent faster than the previous model 90% faster 84% faster The Power Mac G5 Quad configured with advanced pixel shaders. Motion 2 results Visual e∂...
...-time response as you select and apply filters. • All Power Mac G5 cards support two displays: one 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display. Graphics performance Each of GDDR SDRAM Baseline Percent faster than the previous model 90% faster 84% faster The Power Mac G5 Quad configured with advanced pixel shaders. Motion 2 results Visual e∂...
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...fied by -1050-pixel resolution) shows more than 4 million pixels at your new Power Mac G5. Wide-viewing technology guarantees consistent and accurate color across the panel. Color quality is the perfect match for connecting devices. For more than...to display, and each display includes two USB 2.0 and two FireWire 400 ports for your fingertips. All Apple Cinema Displays can check color onscreen, without frequent recalibration. Choosing an Apple display Apple o∂ers a choice of three widescreen flat panels. This means you can be calibrated for color-managed...
...fied by -1050-pixel resolution) shows more than 4 million pixels at your new Power Mac G5. Wide-viewing technology guarantees consistent and accurate color across the panel. Color quality is the perfect match for connecting devices. For more than...to display, and each display includes two USB 2.0 and two FireWire 400 ports for your fingertips. All Apple Cinema Displays can check color onscreen, without frequent recalibration. Choosing an Apple display Apple o∂ers a choice of three widescreen flat panels. This means you can be calibrated for color-managed...
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...video output on a second display or projected image. For maximum productivity, extend your desktop across two displays, allowing more than two displays. Technology Overview 19 Power Mac G5 Connecting to other . Or you can view Final Cut Pro on one display while the audience watches it on the other displays, TVs, VCRs, and... that use floating palettes and long timelines. Video mirroring mode outputs the same information on both displays, which means you can order the Apple DVI to Video Adapter to connect to S-video and composite devices, such as CRTs or projectors.
...video output on a second display or projected image. For maximum productivity, extend your desktop across two displays, allowing more than two displays. Technology Overview 19 Power Mac G5 Connecting to other . Or you can view Final Cut Pro on one display while the audience watches it on the other displays, TVs, VCRs, and... that use floating palettes and long timelines. Video mirroring mode outputs the same information on both displays, which means you can order the Apple DVI to Video Adapter to connect to S-video and composite devices, such as CRTs or projectors.
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...DV, SD, HDV, HD, or even film-the Power Mac G5 gives film and video professionals the freedom and power to create studio-quality projects. • Dual-core and quad-core Power Mac G5 systems speed up editing and enhance multistream and multicam production using DVD...and workstation graphics features, this groundbreaking system opens up slots for Xsan, Apple's enterprise-class storage area networking (SAN) solution. 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 easy to ...
...DV, SD, HDV, HD, or even film-the Power Mac G5 gives film and video professionals the freedom and power to create studio-quality projects. • Dual-core and quad-core Power Mac G5 systems speed up editing and enhance multistream and multicam production using DVD...and workstation graphics features, this groundbreaking system opens up slots for Xsan, Apple's enterprise-class storage area networking (SAN) solution. 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 easy to ...
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...-intensive task of rendering. all other systems were shipping units. 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...
...-intensive task of rendering. all other systems were shipping units. 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...