The Power Mac G5
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The Power Mac G5 is the world’s first personal computer with a 64-bit processor — which means it breaks the 4 gigabyte barrier and can use up to 8 gigabytes of main memory. The new G5 processor — available at speeds up to dual 2GHz with a new ultrahigh-bandwidth system architecture featuring AGP 8X and PCI-X — makes the Power Mac G5 a breakthrough in desktop processing power.

64-bit breakthrough

64-bit processors enable the Power Mac G5 to break through the 4GB barrier and support up to 8GB of 400MHz, 128-bit DDR SDRAM — four times more than a typical PC. More main memory and fast 6.4 GBps throughput means you can write large projects to memory 40 times faster than to a hard disk.
Bandwidth to burn

The Power Mac G5’s ultra-high bandwidth system architecture features a 1GHz frontside bus — one on each processor — for maximum throughput. And a point-to-point system controller lets data move directly between subsystems, without affecting processor function.
PCI-X expansion

The Power Mac G5 comes with three PCI-X slots, giving you the benefit of the newest advance in PCI technology. The PCI-X protocol is perfect for high-performance PCI devices, increasing speeds from 33MHz to 133MHz and throughput from 266MBps to 2GBps.
High-speed AGP 8X Pro graphics bus

Compared with the AGP 4X interface, the Power Mac G5’s AGP 8X Pro graphics bus effectively doubles the maximum transfer rate and doubles the amount of data transferred in a single AGP bus cycle. The 66MHz AGP 8X Pro bus strobes eight times per clock cycle, achieving a 533MHz data rate and a maximum bandwidth of 2.1GB per second — ideal for the ultrafast graphics cards it ships with, like the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro or NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra.
FireWire 800, USB 2.0 and high-performance I/O

The Power Mac G5 ships with a FireWire 800 port and three USB 2.0 ports (plus two USB 1.1 ports on the keyboard). Gigabit Ethernet, FireWire, USB 2.0 and optical digital and analogue audio are all integrated through two bidirectional 16-bit, 800MHz HyperTransport interconnects for a maximum throughput of 3.2GB per second.
Designed for whisper-quiet operation


The Power Mac G5’s enclosure houses four discrete thermal zones to compartmentalise the primary heat-producing components. Fans in the zones spin at very low speeds resulting in a system three times quieter than the Power Mac G4.

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Each of the four thermal zones is equipped with its own dedicated, low-speed fans. Apple engineered seven of the nine fans to spin at very low speeds for minimum acoustic output. And Mac OS X constantly monitors component temperatures in each zone, dynamically adjusting individual fan speeds to the appropriate levels for the quietest possible operation. As a result, the Power Mac G5 runs three times quieter than the previous Power Mac G4 enclosure.

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Get a handle on it

appleg5handle.jpg (6397 bytes)		 The Power Mac G5’s built-in handles will come in handy the day you need to move all your stuff into that corner office you’ve always had your eye on.

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appleg503.jpg (4039 bytes) Three powerful models

The Power Mac G5 product line comes in three muscular configurations — 1.6GHz, 1.8GHz and a dual 2GHz model. They all feature the legendary SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW) as standard equipment across the line. And of course they come with two FireWire 400 ports, three PCI expansion slots, ADC connector, DVI connector, analogue audio in, analogue audio out, optical SPDIF in, optical SPDIF out, front headphone and speaker jack and built-in Gigabit Ethernet — all as standard equipment.
All models are AirPort Extreme-ready, and offer Bluetooth capability as a build-to-order option.
The new 64-bit PowerPC G5 processor

Jointly developed by Apple and IBM, the PowerPC G5 drives the largest gain in processing power in the history of the PowerPC architecture.

Shatters the 4GB ceiling

32-bit PCs can only use 4GB of memory. Any more than that requires the use of virtual memory on the hard drive, which is 40 times slower than using RAM. The new Power Mac G5 can offer up to 8GB of RAM thanks to the 64-bit G5. So you can store entire 3D worlds, huge scientific data sets and oversized 2D images all in main memory, which lets you manipulate them faster. To repeat: 40 times faster. Theoretically, the 64-bit data paths let the Power PC G5 access up to 4 terabytes of physical memory. Impractical now, maybe, but the Power PC G5 architecture allows for plenty of growth well into the future.
Magic bus

And to get at that data, the PowerPC G5 features an industry-leading 1GHz frontside bus for each processor, offering a staggering 16 GBps throughput on dual PowerPC G5 systems. That’s a huge leap over today’s Power Mac G4, with a bus speed of 167MHz. That means you won’t have a bottleneck getting information to the chip for processing.

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Award-winning logic


The PowerPC G5 gets its smarts from the execution core of IBM’s 64-bit POWER4 processor — recipient of the Microprocessor Report’s 2001 Analyst’s Choice Award for Best Workstation/Server Processor. The POWER4 drives IBM’s successful eBusiness servers, with highly parallel processing, two double-precision floating-point units and advanced branch prediction logic. Apple collaborated with IBM to leverage this industry-leading design for the G5, combining an optimized Velocity Engine with a new superscalar, superpipelined execution core that supports more than 200 simultaneous in-flight instructions. But you won’t have to buy new software to take advantage of the Power Mac G5 speed boost, because Apple and IBM designed the PowerPC architecture to scale from 32- to 64-bit from the beginning.
Plugged in

It’s easy to plug printers, scanners and other devices into the Power Mac G5. In addition to sporting a full complement of ports on the back, the front panel has FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 ports, as well as a headphone jack.

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4X SuperDrive

Every Power Mac G5 comes with a SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW) that lets you burn both CDs and DVDs that can be played in most consumer DVD players. The SuperDrive reads DVD titles at 8x and writes to 4.7-gigabyte DVD-R discs at 4x.

Built for Mac OS X

The Power Mac G5 runs all of your software — and runs it faster — with a version of Mac OS X v10.2 specially tuned for the PowerPC G5 processor, providing a seamless transition to 64-bit power.

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Technical Specifications
Processing
  • 1.6GHz, 1.8GHz, or dual 2GHz PowerPC G5 microprocessors
  • PowerPC processor architecture with 64-bit data paths and registers
  • Native support for 32-bit application code
  • 512K on-chip L2 cache running at processor speed
  • Parallel data structure supporting up to 215 simultaneous in-flight instructions
  • Simultaneous issue of up to 10 out-of-order operations
  • Dual-pipeline Velocity Engine for 128-bit single-instruction, multiple-data (SIMD) processing
  • Two independent double-precision floating-point units
  • Advanced three-stage branch-prediction logic
  • 800MHz, 900MHz, or 1GHz 64-bit DDR frontside bus supporting up to 8-GBps data throughput; one on each processor on dual processor systems
  • Point-to-point system controller
Memory
  • 128-bit data paths for up to 6.4-GBps memory throughput
  • 1.6GHz model
    • 256MB of PC2700 (333MHz) DDR SDRAM
    • Four DIMM slots supporting up to 4GB of main memory
  • 1.8GHz systems and 2Ghz systems
    • 512MB of PC3200 (400MHz) DDR SDRAM
    • Eight DIMM slots supporting up to 8GB of main memory
  • Support for the following DIMMs (in pairs):
    • 128MB DIMMs (64-bit-wide, 128- or 256-Mbit)
    • 256MB DIMMs (64-bit-wide, 128- or 256-Mbit)
    • 512MB DIMMs (64-bit-wide, 256-Mbit)
    • 1GB DIMMs (64-bit-wide, 256-Mbit)
Graphics and displays
  • AGP 8X Pro graphics slot supporting up to 2-GBps data throughput, with one of the following graphics cards installed:
    • NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra with 64MB of DDR SDRAM
    • ATI Radeon 9600 Pro with 64MB of DDR SDRAM
    • ATI Radeon 9800 Pro with 128MB of DDR SDRAM (build-to-order option)
  • Support for digital resolutions up to 1920 by 1200 pixels
  • Support for analog resolutions up to 1600 by 1200 pixels
  • ADC and DVI connectors; DVI to VGA adapter included
  • Dual display support for extended desktop and video mirroring modes
  • Support for up to two Apple flat panel displays(8)
Storage
  • Two Serial ATA controllers supporting up to 150-MBps data throughput per hard drive
  • Two 3.5-inch hard drive expansion bays with drive guides for a second drive
    • One 80GB or 160GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA drive installed in standard configurations(5)
    • Support for up to two internal Serial ATA drives; 500GB maximum system capacity(5)
    • 8MB memory buffers on all hard drives
  • Optical drive bay with SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW) installed; writes DVD-R discs at up to 4x speed, reads DVDs at up to 8x speed, writes CD-R discs at up to16x speed, writes CD-RW discs at up to 10x speed, reads CDs at up to 32x speed
PCI expansion
  • One of the following configurations:
    • Three open full-length 64-bit, 33MHz PCI slots, or
    • One open full-length 64-bit, 133MHz PCI-X slot and two open full-length 64-bit 100MHz PCI-X slots
Communications
  • 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet connector (RJ-45)
  • Built-in 56K V.92 modem (RJ-11) (13)
  • Expansion slot for optional 54-Mbps AirPort Extreme Card (based on IEEE 802.11g specification; 802.11b Wi-Fi certified) (6)
  • External AirPort Extreme antenna
  • Optional Bluetooth 1.1 module and antenna
Peripherals and audio
  • One FireWire 800 port and two FireWire 400 ports (one on front panel, 15W total power)
  • Three USB 2.0 ports (on one front panel), two USB 1.1 ports on keyboard
  • Front headphone minijack and speaker
  • Optical digital audio in and out Toslink connectors
  • Stereo audio in and out minijacks
Electrical and environmental requirements

 

  • Meets ENERGY STAR requirements
  • Line voltage: 100-125V AC or 200-240V AC
  • Frequency: 50Hz to 60Hz, single phase
  • Maximum current: 6.5A (low-voltage range) or 7.5A (high-voltage range)
  • Operating temperature: 50° to 95° F (10° to 35° C)
  • Storage temperature: -40° to 116° F (-40° to 47° C)
  • Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
  • Maximum altitude: 10,000 feet


Size and weight

  • Height: 20.1 inches (51.1 cm)
  • Width: 8.1 inches (20.6 cm)
  • Depth: 18.7 inches (47.5 cm)
  • Weight: 39.2 pounds (17.8 kg) (14)
(1) Tests performed by Apple in June 2003 using preproduction Power Mac G5 units. The Power Mac systems ran a PowerPC G5 — optimized version of Photoshop 7.0.1 including optimized AltiVecCore, ACE, and BIB Carbon Libraries; the Dell Dimension ran Photoshop 7.0.1.
(2) “World’s fastest” based on SPEC CPU2000 benchmark results and leading professional application performance tests against 3GHz Pentium 4 — based Dell Dimension 8300 and dual 3.06GHz Xeon-based Dell Precision Workstation 650. SPEC CPU2000 benchmarks run with GCC 3.3 compiler and independently tested; professional applications tested by Apple, June 2003.
(3) Based on SPEC CPU2000 benchmark results against 3GHz Pentium 4 — based Dell Dimension 8300 and dual 3.06GHz Xeon-based Dell Precision Workstation 650, run with GCC 3.3 compiler and independently tested, June 2003.
(4) Selected models.
(5) 1GB = 1 billion bytes; actual formatted capacity less.
(6) Achieving data rates of 54 Mbps requires that all users have an AirPort Extreme Card and connect to an AirPort Extreme Base Station. If any user of Wi-Fi certified 802.11b products joins the network, that user will get up to 11 Mbps and AirPort Extreme network users will get less than 54 Mbps. Actual speed will vary based on range, connection rate, site conditions, size of network, and other factors.
(7) Check with manufacturer for compatibility.
(8) Second Apple flat-panel display requires Apple DVI to ADC Adapter, sold separately.
(9) Actual rates will vary.
(10) Preliminary specifications based on preproduction Power Mac G5 units.
(11) Based on SPEC CPU2000 benchmark results against 3GHz Pentium 4 — based Dell Dimension 8300 and dual 3.06GHz Xeon-based Dell Precision Workstation 650m, performed by VeriTest, June 2003.
(12) Tests performed by Apple in June 2003 using preproduction Power Mac G5 units with application software optimized for the PowerPC G5.
(13) Compatible ISP and telephone services required. Your ISP may not support all V.92 features. Modem will function according to V.90 standards if V.92 services are not available. Actual modem speeds lower.
(14) Weight varies by configuration and manufacturing process.
Internet access requires a compatible Internet service provider; fees may apply.
Product contains electronic documentation.
Backup copy of software is included.

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