Apple Online Store - ATI X850

quamb

Apple are now offering the X850 gpu as a bto option for their Powermac line.



Good news to see this is available- is a great card!



BUT... ofcourse due to my luck... was waiting for this to be an option for sometime, though gave up and ordered a 2.3 with a nvidia6800 not long ago- and it should be arriving in the next few days. And now Apple starts offering the card I was waiting for, just now.



GRRRRR>>>> so typical. Maybe am over reacting, but I waited and waited for PCI-express and apple to offer the latest ATI card as BTO. But nothing, so gave up.

exhibit_13

wow, i'm impressed. i wasn't expecting them to release the X850, i was expecting at best the X800. not a huge difference, but surprising none the less. its nice to finally have the top-of-the-line ATI card after so long. the only downside i can see with this card is the lack of a second DVI port. having only a DVI port and an ADC port, it kind of limits the possibilities of some professionals. on the upside, the specs that apple lists are impressive. 8 billion pixels/sec vs the 1.3 billion on the 9600 and 5.6 billion on the 6800 GT. the X850 uses only 1 slot, too, so a lot of people are gonna be happy with that. god, now if only i had a nice computer so i could upgrade. *tear* if i get a PM in the next few years, especially when the mactels premiere, i'm DEFINITELY upgrading.

james cook

I ordered a G5 two days ago on the 28th - the first day the new ATI became available. Here's the specs.

2.7 GHz

400 GB HD

1 GB RAM (+2 GB from another source)

ATI X850 XT



Needless to say, I can't wait for it to arrive. The computers I currently use are a Beige with G4 @ 541MHz (plus many other upgrades) and a Pismo, so I haven't been anywhere near top of the line for years.



I'm thinking about maybe doing some benchmarks when it arrives next week, but I don't really have any games yet to test it with (although I might by then or soon after). Maybe there are other options for testing. Something available for free?

emig647

I'm really stoked they came out with this card. I would much rather have this ATI card than the NVidia card. I just sold my pc and have $2500 now... dual 2.3 with x850xt is 2259 (minus superdrive) with dev discount... not bad.



This changes everything for me.

altivec_2.0

Looks like the x850 took the place of the 6800 Ultra. They only have the 6800GT DDL.

jeffdm

Quote:

Originally posted by James Cook

I'm thinking about maybe doing some benchmarks when it arrives next week, but I don't really have any games yet to test it with (although I might by then or soon after). Maybe there are other options for testing. Something available for free? [/B]

The America's Army game is available for Mac, and is free. It simply doesn't tax my stock dual 2.5 at all, even at 1600x1200, so it's not much of a good load test.

placebo

Get the Doom 3 demo whenever that comes out (should be in a few weeks or sooner)