World Famous Comics: ATI 100-435317 Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition for G5 256MB AGP Video Card
ATI 100-435317 Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition for G5 256MB AGP Video Card
From: ATI Technologies Average Rating: Binding: Electronics Graphics Memory Size: 256 MB Label: ATI Technologies Model: 100-435317 Warranty: 3 years warranty
Features:
256 MB GDDR3 memory graphics card with AGP 8x support and 3Dc technology
16 extreme parallel pixel pipelines, and six parallel vertex processing pipelines deliver twice the performance of the acclaimed Radeon 9800 Pro
Dual digital display connections capable of powering any combination of digital flat panel or analog displays simultaneously, with independent resolutions and refresh rates
Comes with ATI's hassle-free, manufacturer's three-year limited warranty, and updates through ati.com
Requires a Power Mac 5, 512 MB of memory, a CD-ROM drive for the installation software, and supports Mac OS X 10.3.6 or higher
Product Description: Macintosh is for creativity, primarily visual creativity and this graphic card helps you get the max from your Mac. For avid Mac gamers, the Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition with advanced programmable shaders provides an extremely smooth and responsive HD gaming experience, allowing players to take control of the most demanding game titles at the highest possible settings. Combine this with ATI's latest generation image enhancements, filtering, compression, and acceleration technologies to establish a new standard in visual realism and graphics performance. Expand your creative range with more speed and efficiency using content creation software titles such as Motion, Modo, and Maya - without constraints. With the Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition you will experience faster rendering of visual effects at higher resolutions. Increase your productivity with quicker switching between screens, improve web graphics and monitor performance. The Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition is also future ready and fully compatible with the Core Image features of the upcoming Tiger release of Mac OS X.
Amazon.com Product Description: With a combination of break-through software technologies and category leading advancements in shader engineering, the ATI Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition delivers a phenomenal 3D graphics solution that integrates beautifully with your Macintosh system.
For avid Mac gamers, the Radeon X800 XT has advanced programmable shaders that provide an extremely smooth and responsive high-definition (HD) gaming experience, allowing players to play the most demanding game titles at the highest possible settings. The X800 XT also makes use of ATI's latest-generation image enhancements, filtering, compression, and acceleration technologies to establish a new standard in visual realism and graphics performance. Not just for gaming, this graphics card lets you expand your creative range with more speed and efficiency, using content creation software titles such as Motion, Modo, and Maya without constraints. With the Radeon X800, you will experience faster rendering of visual effects at higher resolutions, and an increase in productivity with quicker switching between screens, as well as improved web graphics and monitor performance.
With 16 parallel pixel pipelines, and six parallel vertex processing pipelines, the Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition delivers over twice the performance of its highly acclaimed predecessor, the Radeon 9800 Pro. ATI has improved this card over the 9800 Pro to the tune of a 150-percent faster pixel fill rate, a 50-percent gain on memory bandwidth, a 90-percent gain on geometry performance, and a floating point operations-per-second gain of 140-percent. The X800 XT Mac delivers unbelievable acceleration in a quiet, cool, single-slot AGP Pro 8x solution, with a variable speed, fan-sink cooling mechanism that leaves all of your PCI slots available for other, more important uses, and no need for an external power cable because of its efficient design.
The X800 XT Mac is equipped with workstation-class dual digital display connections capable of powering any combination of digital flat panel or analog displays simultaneously, with independent resolutions and refresh rates. With one dual-link DVI and native connectability to the Apple Display Connector (ADC), the Radeon X800 XT supports ultra-high resolution LCDs, such as a single 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display (2560 x 1600 resolution), as well as any legacy Apple Digital Display. Of course, you can also use both of these ports to connect standard VGA-type analog displays via adapters. (One DVI-to-VGA adapter included.)
The Radeon X800 also features high-precision 32-bit per-channel rendering, 256-bit quad-channel GDDR3 memory interface, and 3Dc technology that works with any two-channel data format providing high-quality 4:1 Normal Map Compression. This graphics card includes SmartShader 2.0 HD which has 1,536 instructions and 16 textures per rendering pass, facing register for two-sided lighting, and from 32-bit to 128-bit per-pixel floating point color formats. The X800 also includes SmoothVision 2.0 HD with state-of-the-art, full-scene anti-aliasing, and advanced anisotropic filtering.
ATI's Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition requires a Power Mac 5, 512 MB of memory, and a CD-ROM drive for the installation software. The X800 XT supports Mac OS X 10.3.6 or higher, and comes with ATI's hassle-free, manufacturer's three-year limited warranty.
What's in the Box ATI Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition 256MB Graphics Card, DVI-I to VGA adapter, Installation and Setup Guide, and an Installation CD.
Problem with G5 & Leopard I'd like to add that the X800 XT for Mac worked wonderfully (once I received a working replacement from ATI) with my G5-2.0 using Tiger, but now upon upgrading to Leopard the fans are a little louder (noticeable but not terrible), and I periodically get a flash of green or pink on my entire 30" Cinema Display screen when trashing a file or closing a window or application. This may only be a problem with the combination of G5-Leopard-30" Apple Cinema Display.
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Simply the best. There are a couple of other 256MB graphics cards for the Power Mac G5. This is the best by far. It blows away the competition in every category. There are many sites you can find from google that show the bench test comparisons. These are very hard to find, but worth the extra cost if you ask me. If you are running a 30 inch Cinema LCD you will notice the difference in lag time between this card and the other 256MB cards that are out there. Again, don't take my word for it. Go see the comparison tests on the internet. Nothing even comes close to the performance of this card. It is, quite simply, the best graphics card money can buy for your Power Mac G5 with AGP Pro 8X graphics. This is your bad boy right here.
Works great with Aperture I bought this video card to speed up Aperture on my G5 tower, and it has more than doubled the speed of the app. A photo with lots of adjustments, particularly spot healing, still bogs down everything, though. I took off one stare for the fan noise. It's not overly bad or obtrusive, but it can be heard constantly when the G5's fans are at their lowest setting.
Great! I upgraded to this video card in my 2.3GHz G5 Mac to effectively use Aperture. To that end, and for a little boost in overall speed, the card does its job.
It's easy to install and takes only one slot. The card is also quiter than I expected.
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