Power Mac G5

Get to know the Power Mac G5

Choose a Power Mac G5 Dual or Power Mac G5 Quad and prepare to be blown away. Featuring dual-core PowerPC processors, a modern PCI Express architecture and wicked-fast workstation graphics.

Dual-core, quad-core
Introducing the dual-core PowerPC G5 processor: one silicon chip with two independent processor cores. Take two of those dual-core chips and you have the groundbreaking Power Mac G5 Quad. You can manipulate mountains of images or miles of footage, crunch enormous data sets, encode video or music and more — all at speeds you never imagined possible.

Workstation graphics arrive
The new lineup of advanced PCI Express graphics cards from NVIDIA delivers cutting-edge capabilities and support for up to two displays, including the 30-inch Apple Cinema HD. Need more horsepower? Then upgrade to NVIDIA's Quadro FX 4500 workstation graphics for industrial-strength animation, stereo 3D visualization and much more. It can even power two 30-inch Cinema HD displays.

Up to 69% faster for creative applications
Quad-core processing means more 64-bit resources for enormous performance gains. See how the Power Mac G5 Quad compares to our fastest dual-processor model in both creative and technical applications.

Testing conducted by Apple in September 2005 using preproduction 2.5GHz Power Mac G5 Quad units; all other systems tested were shipping units. For complete test information, download the Technology Overview.

Up to 16GB of memory
Easily customize your Power Mac G5 for your professional workflow. Enjoy up to 16GB of 533MHz DDR2 memory, two Serial ATA hard drive bays for up to 1 terabyte of storage, plus all the FireWire, USB 2.0 and audio ports you need. And with the integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet, you can join an Xsan media network while connecting simultaneously to the Internet.

PCI Express expansion
An all-new PCI Express architecture opens up a world of high-performance peripherals to the Mac platform. Two four-lane slots and one eight-lane slot support the latest video I/O, audio DSP and Fibre Channel expansion cards — so you'll have tremendous power and productivity in a single system.

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