What is ATA100 ? ATI 9000 pro ?

kali

Hi all,



What is ATA100 in the new G4 ?



How is it, compared to the old G4 ?



And how is the new ATI Radeon 9000pro video card, compared to the 8500 ? How can you compare the 9000pro card to the NVidia GF4 Ti ?



I just need to know....



Thanks.

hmurchison

ATA is a Hard Drive interface that supports 100 megabyts per second throughput. The Radeon 9000 is a new 3D Graphics Processing Unit that support programmability....meaning game designers can add code that program the card to do certain functions. I believe it also has Pixel Shaders which would be a benefit over a Geforce MX I believe CMIIAW

imud

These are from the powermac pages on Apple's site. :cool:

pyr3

[quote]Originally posted by Kali:

<strong>Hi all,



What is ATA100 in the new G4 ?



How is it, compared to the old G4 ?



And how is the new ATI Radeon 9000pro video card, compared to the 8500 ? How can you compare the 9000pro card to the NVidia GF4 Ti ?



I just need to know....



Thanks.</strong><hr></blockquote>



ATI's 9700 beats up the GeForce4 horribly, it comes out before Sept I think.

cinder

<a href="http://www.apple.com/pr/photos/powermac/0208pmg4.html"; target="_blank">http://www.apple.com/pr/photos/powermac/0208pmg4.html</a>;

(beautiful 10MB TIFF detailing the guts of the new Mac. Looks best in photoshop, of course because it's all color tweaked.)



so, the ATA66 channel is for the media bays and the ATA100 channel is for the harddrives?



eh?

stoo

The 9000 Pro and 9700 are different cards: the 9000 Pro is also out much sooner.

xaqtly

There's actually three ATA busses... one ATA-100 for two hard drives, one ATA-66 for another two hard drives, and I'm assuming another ATA-66 for the two optical drives.

myahmac

exactly xaqtly

cinder

oh - ok

I see the other channel.





regardless

there are still only two controllers - but there are three channels.



Too bad they didnt double up on the ATA100 instead . . .



although, I think two channels on an ATA100 slows it down?

or is that just having two drives on the same channel?

razzfazz

[quote]Originally posted by cinder:

<strong>oh - ok

I see the other channel.



regardless

there are still only two controllers - but there are three channels.

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Nope, each channel "belongs" to one controller.

However, each ATA channel can accomodate two drives, one master and one slave.



Bye,

RazzFazz