Power Mac G5
Technology Overview
October 2005
Technology Overview
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 Graphics
PCI Express Expansion
Dual Gigabit Ethernet
High-Performance I/O
Page 15
Workstation Graphics
Advanced Graphics Options
Apple Cinema Displays
Support for Multiple Displays
Page 20
Real-World Advantages
Film and Video
Science and Technical Computing
Design and Print
Music and Audio
Page 29
