Apple M9592LL Technology Overview - Page 10

Technology Overview 10 Power Mac G5 PCI Express Architecture The new Power Mac G5 introduces a modern PCI Express architecture to the Mac platform, opening up a world of high-performance system technologies and peripherals. PCI Express paves the way for emerging solutions for media and networking, making it a future-savvy choice for your lab or studio. Built into the Power Mac G5 architecture is an all-new system controller. This fast application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) integrates a new lower-latency memory subsystem with support for ultrafast DDR2 main memory-plus 16-lane PCI Express graphics and the dual-channel, bidirectional frontside bus that made its debut in the original Power Mac G5. Dual bidirectional frontside buses System controller PCI Express graphics PCI Express expansion SuperDrive with double-layer support Dual-core PowerPC G5 processors 533MHz DDR2 memory Dual Gigabit Ethernet Serial ATA storage High-performance I/O