The following cards only work on a G5 Power Mac with 8X AGP slot: It's also sold by Small Dog Electronics and Other World Computing. You can buy it directly from ATI's Online Store for $299 (with "trade up" allowance ). The best option for your Dual-Core or Quad-Core G5 with PCIe slots is the ATI Radeon X1900 G5 Mac Edition released in November 2006. Graphics Card Options for the Dual-Core or Quad-Core G5 with 16X PCI Express slot:
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Nor will Windows PC PCIe graphics cards work in the Mac Pro.
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NOTE: Mac Pro PCIe graphics cards will not work in Power Mac G5s with PCIe slots - and vice versa. If you didn't order the Radeon X1900 XT with your Mac Pro, you can order the Radeon X1900 XT as an aftermarket kit for your Mac Pro, go to the Apple Store and click on DISPLAYS in the left margin or do a search on "X1900." To custom order your Mac Pro with the Radeon X1900 XT, go to the Apple Store and click on the Mac Pro graphic. According to Alias/Autodesk, the X1900 XT is the only graphics card without limitations when using Maya 8.5. It's much faster than the GeForce 7300 GT and just as fast as the expensive Quadro FX 4500. We recommend the Radeon X1900 XT (16X, 512MB, two dual-link DVI ports) as a CTO option. The GeForce 7300 GT (16X, 256MB, dual-link DVI + single-link DVI port) is the default. The initial offering in June 2006 will be a GeForce 6600 GT, though more powerful, higher-end variants are planned.įor your Mac Pro, you have the following 16X PCI Express (PCIe) options:
Better yet, make mine an X1900 XT.Īlso encouraging was the announcement by XFX Graphics that they have signed a licensing agreement with Apple to develop and bring to market a range of NVIDIA GeForce-based Shader Model 3.0 graphics accelerators to for AGP Power Macs. I hope they will soon release the Radeon X1800 PCIe card that they were demonstrating at MacWorld SF in January 2006. I commend ATI Technology for their continued efforts and investment in providing aftermarket, affordable GPUs for the Mac community including the $199 Radeon 9600 PC and Mac Edition, the $299 Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Edition, and the $399 Radeon X800 XT. These practices have made many consumers feel justified in experimenting with the flashing of PC graphics cards. has created a lot of frustration by either NOT offering aftermarket upgrades (like the GeForce 7800 GT) - or - by offering them at high prices and then pulling them off the market even before the current model goes out of production (like they did with the GeForce 6800 GT and Ultra). And when a truly fast retail card appears, it's often much more costly than the PC equivalent.Īpple Inc. There is a lot of frustration with the dirth of really fast aftermarket graphics cards for the various G4 and G5 Power Macs. Do it wrong and you will end up with an expensive door stop. Sometimes the ROM itself must be replaced with a bigger one.
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Sometimes the ROM code must be modified before it will work in the PC card. There is an ethical issue you must deal with when taking the ROM code from a Mac graphics card you DON'T own and flashing it into the ROM of a Windows PC graphics card.
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