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ATI Radeon X1900 G5 Mac edition ships

updated 02:20 pm EST, Mon November 6, 2006

ATI Radeon X1900 for G5s


AMD today began shipping the ATI Radeon X1900 G5 Mac edition of its next-generation graphics card designed to combine workstation-class creative productivity and cutting-edge 3D game performance. The card offers Power Mac G5 owners a high-performance PCI Express graphics upgrade option previously available only to Mac Pro buyers configuring new systems from Apple. The ATI Radeon X1900 G5 Mac Edition features 36 pixel shader processors with 256MB of video memory, delivering more than 37GB/sec of memory bandwidth. The card includes two DVI ports capable of supporting two 30-inch Apple Cinema Displays, and is priced at $350.


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  1. RyanG3

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    11/06, 03:21pm | report spam | Reply |

    Great But...

    This is great, but I wish they would offer a version of this card for earlier G5's as well. ATi is offering this card for a machine that was sold for less than a year, but earlier G5 owners who are looking to upgrade their graphic cards are left with no decent options. I would think that the older G5 market would be bigger and have more potential people wanting to upgrade.

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    11/06, 04:46pm | report spam | Reply |

    Re: great but...

    Problem is, the X1900 chipset is a PCI-express-only solution. There is no AGP-based X1900. To do so would require a bridge chip, adding expense and limiting performance.

  1. shawnce

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    11/06, 04:51pm | report spam | Reply |

    dont think...

    I don't think ATI has ever made a X1900 based card with an AGP interface (don't see one anyplace), that is why it only support G5s with PCIe.

  1. boulder1259

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    11/06, 06:01pm | report spam | Reply |

    Nice, but...

    Does anybody know why it is so expensive? The equivilent PC card goes for under $220.

    Thanks, Greg

  1. lepetitmartien

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    11/06, 07:02pm | report spam | Reply |

    Mac User Slavery

    Given most of the cards between mac and PC version have only a few resistors sometimes and only the firmware changed, the price difference is just greed. Maybe one day Apple could care once about this. The video card market for mac will never launch as long as we are considered like billionaires.

    And we need high performances cards for Core Image!

    I'd like the GPU founders to care about real 2D acceleration, as it's the primary need for any user in any app. To use the 3D acceleration for this is a twist.

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