is now available exclusively to Mac customers purchasing new Power Mac G4 systems: "ATI's Radeon 9700 Pro is a great option for built to order Power Mac G4s..It also delivers twice the performance of any competing product on the market and enables gamers to crank up the quality-enhancing features while maintaining frame-rates that they can brag about." The graphics card offers eight parallel rendering pipelines (over 2.5 billion pixels per second); four parallel geometry engines (300 million transformed and lit polygons per second); Hyper Z III memory bandwidth saving technologies, a high-performance 256-bit DDR memory interface (offering 20 GB/second of graphics memory bandwidth); Smartshader 2.0 advanced pixel and vertex shader technologies and SmoothVision 2.0 anti-aliasing. As noted yesterday, the card is listed as "available soon" as a BTO at the Apple Store.

by MacNN Staff