Power Macintosh

Power Macintosh G5 Model Guide

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Confused by all the Power Macintosh G5 models and their expansion slots? This table sorts them out. In all cases except the last generation dual-core models, they use a single-core PowerPC 970 CPU and 8x AGP graphics.

Model

Introduced

6/23/03

11/18/03

6/9/04

10/19/04

4/27/05

10/19/05

CPU(s)

single-core G5

dual-core G5

CPU Speed

single 1.6 GHz

single 1.8 GHz

dual 2.0 GHz

dual 1.8 GHz

dual 2.0 GHz

dual 2.5 GHz

single 1.8 GHz

dual 2.0 GHz

dual 2.3 GHz

dual 2.7 GHz

dual 2.0 GHz

dual 2.3 GHz

quad 2.5 GHz

Memory Bus

800 MHz

900 MHz

1 GHz

900 MHz

1 GHz

1.25 GHz

600 MHz

1 GHz

1.15 GHz

1.35 GHz

1 GHz

1.15 GHz

1.25 GHz

Base RAM

256 MB

512 MB

256 MB

512 MB

256 MB

512 MB

Max RAM

4 GB

8 GB

4 GB

8 GB

4 GB

8 GB

16 GB

Minimum OS

OS X 10.2

OS X 10.3

OS X 10.4

Hard Drive

80 GB

160 GB

80 GB

160 GB

80 GB

160 GB

250 GB

160 GB

250 GB

Video

GeForce FX5200

Radeon 9600 Pro

GeForce FX5200

GeForce FX5200 Ultra

Radeon 9600 XT

GeForce FX5200 Ultra

Radeon 9600

Radeon 9650

Radeon 9800 XT

GeForce 6600 LE

VRAM

64 MB

128 MB

64 MB

128 MB

256 MB

128 MB

256 MB

512 MB

CD/DVD

4x SuperDrive

8x SuperDrive

16x SuperDrive

USB 2.0

3 (1 on front)

4 (1 on front)

FireWire 400

2 (1 on front)

FireWire 800

Expansion Slots

3 64-bit PCI

3 64-bit PCI-X

3 64-bit PCI

3 64-bit PCI-X

3 64-bit PCI

3 64-bit PCI-X

3 PCI Express

Ethernet

10/100/1000

dual 10/100/1000

Modem

v.92

H/W/D

20.1"/8.1"/18.7"

Weight

39.2 lbs.

44.5-48.8 lbs.

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