Apple G5 Specs Released By Apple

[tgpo]

http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/03/06/20/1153254.shtml?tid=137&tid=174

It seems like the Apples are getting an upgrade!!!

* 1.6Ghz, 1.8Ghz, or dual 2Ghz PowerPC G5 Processors
* Up to 1 Ghz processor bus (!!)
* Up to 8 GB of DDR SDRAM
* Fast Serial ATA hard drives
* AGP 8X Pro graphics options from NVIDIA or ATI
* Three PCI or PCI-X expansion slots
* Three USB 2.0 ports
* One FireWire 800, two FireWire 400 ports
* Bluetooth & Airport Extreme ready
* Optical and analog audio in and out

The IBM 970 chips are being marketed as G5 chips.

[tgpo]

Another link:
http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/06/19/powermacg5/

[Mac-DVD-Burner]

OH MY GOD...If this is real, STEVE *IS* GOD!!!

[rvl123]

Holy crap...

Can you say PC KILLER?

All Apple needs to do is have a good price...

[thayne]

I may end up getting another Mac afterall!!!!!!

[Faustus]

I cannot begin to discribe the joy I have reading this. I need about 5k stat!

*Counts his change* CRAP about $4999 short... someone needs a loan!
*Checks Credit* CRAP!!!
*CRYS*

[disturbed1]

Isn't the IBM PowerPC 970 the same CPU IBM came out with in October 2002?

It's said to have a peak bandwidth of 6.4gb/second, with 1.5mb (1536kb) L2 cache, with a true FSB of 450! (double pumped to get the 900 rating). Operates at 1.3v consuming 42watts @ 1.8gHz.

With the altivect instructions, the 1.8 is capable of 14.4 gigaflops, but does not support 64bit double precision operations.

Individual read and write is less impressive, for the 1.8 970 it is only capable of 3.2gb/sec, compared to the P4's 4.2gb/s and AMD's 2.7gb/s.

In test reports, the 1.8gHz PPC 970 was 29% slower than Intels 1.0gHz Itanium2, and about on par with (only slightly faster) than AMD's XP1800+. While besting the Xeon 2.53gHz in server performance by 5%.

IBM reason for the poor performance was due to it's weak FPU instruction set.

IBM went further to state that by the time the PPC 970 hits mass market, the P4 will be well above 4.0gHz.

Still a vast improvement over the PPC G4, which was only capable of a peak bandwidth of 1.3gb/sec.


Those were the test reports from late last year. I've heard rumors that IBM has decided to further strip down the CPU, including a smaller L2 cache (maybe only 512kb), a shorter pipeline, and fewer mulitmedia instruction sets.

Impressive as a MAC goes, won't shy me away from Intel though.

[tgpo]

IT'S ALL TRUE!!!!!! G5s ship in August!!!!! MAC Power!!

[AmuroRay]

http://www.wininformant.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=39381

I'd read this and some of the other aritcles out there like it before buying the G5

[BJ_M]

http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/2003/06_jun/editorials/cw_editorial79.htm


but im still thinking about getting one if the right hardware works with it

[Piccoro]

Yeah i like that one, BJ_M.
Apples site never did compare any AMD cpu.

[mysticgohan17]

Holy crap...

Can you say PC KILLER?

All Apple needs to do is have a good price...

incredible