The AGP 8X Pro graphics
interface doubles the maximum transfer rate — and doubles the amount of data
transferred in a single AGP bus cycle — and gives the hot new GPUs from ATI
and NVIDIA the bandwidth they need to deliver cinematic-quality 3D graphics.
Your eyes pick out the little things first — things you never noticed before in 3d graphics. Things like highlights on falling snowflakes while you march in the Ardennes, spray from a wave reflecting golden sunlight as you carve through it, or particles floating in shafts in light as you decend into a dungeon. You might see such things vividly in close-up in real life or at the movies all the time, of course. But never on a computer screen — at least not in such spectacular detail.
The 66MHz AGP 8X Pro bus strobes eight times per clock cycle, giving
you a 533MHz data rate and a maximum bandwidth of 2.1GBps. This dramatically
enhanced performance drives graphics-intensive applications to astonishing
resolutions, with lifelike texturing for the most immersive visual experience.
Standard configurations of the Power Mac G5 come with the NVIDIA GeForce
FX 5200 Ultra or the ATI Radeon 9600 Pro, both with 64MB of video SDRAM.
Both cards offer support for the latest in graphics technology, increased
horsepower for faster and smoother gameplay and the most advanced graphics
programmability for stunning special effects. And in case you’re wondering,
programmability is a critical advantage because it allows next-generation
games and professional applications to use the graphics chip as a processor.
This both offloads computations from the computer’s main processor and allows
for infinite effects with the nuances of real-life images.
The GeForce FX 5200 Ultra features the CineFX engine and NVIDIA’s advanced
Lightspeed Memory Architecture II for photorealistic 3D graphics in games
and visualization applications. The Radeon 9600 Pro visibly upgrades your
graphics performance with a quad-pipe architecture, SmartShader 2.0 technology
and HyperZ III+ memory architecture to push the performance envelope in high-end
design applications.
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Testing conducted by Apple in June 2003
using preproduction Power Mac G5 units with application software optimized
for the PowerPC G5. |
For over-the-top graphics that saturate your senses, choose the optional
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, an AGP Pro card and the fastest and most visually advanced
3D graphics accelerator on the planet. The industry’s only cinematic Visual
Processing Unit (VPU), the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro’s turbocharged 256-bit DDR
memory interface and 8-pixel pipeline combine to deliver production studio-caliber
graphics — in real-time. Perfect for intensive 3D modeling tasks and for
equally intensive next-generation games.
With highly programmable shader engines and OpenGL feature sets, the
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro visual processor brings the most detailed worlds to life
with movie-quality lighting, textures and effects.
The ATI Radeon 9800 Pro’s SMARTSHADER 2.1 rewrites the rules for realism
with its 128-bit floating-point color precision, enabling hyper-realistic
imagery to be displayed with billions of color variations. And with its eight
parallel rendering pipelines, a 256-bit wide memory interface and support
for the AGP 8X standard, this card delivers tremendous performance at the
highest resolutions and detail settings.
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Apple flat-panel LCD displays
Choose from the first family of all-digital flat-panel displays. Apple flat-panel LCD displays give you image quality, vivid color and the industry’s best wide-viewing technology — all at affordable prices. With a compact footprint that doesn’t take up too much
valuable real estate on your desk, an Apple display lets you enjoy the benefits
of thin and light LCD technology — with twice the brightness, twice the sharpness,
and twice the contrast of a standard CRT display. You can calibrate an Apple
display for color-managed workflows, and rest assured it will maintain consistent
color and quality without frequent recalibration.
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Connect to VGA displays
