3ghz G5's a year away says Rumers"
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 1:03 pm
Saturday, December 4
3GHz is still some ways off, according to sources at IBM and Apple. Dual-core G5's could be even further away than that, according to our latest recon.
We'll be getting into the details of those future developments more in the week ahead, but right now the grapevine seems to have taken a turn for the conservative when it comes to high-end G5 progress in the next 6-8 months. Eventually the dual-core PowerPC 970MP will bring us 3GHz, bigger on-chip L2 caches, and a faster system controller that will offer DDR533 support.
But it may not be this next PowerMac update; with each passing day, it is looking more likely that the early-2005 update will reach 2.8GHz with a new revision to IBM's 90-nanometer PPC 970FX. There would be no other major changes in this scenario except for the addition of the ATi X800 XT as a GPU option; things like PCI Express and faster memory would have to wait until nearly this time next year....
3GHz is still some ways off, according to sources at IBM and Apple. Dual-core G5's could be even further away than that, according to our latest recon.
We'll be getting into the details of those future developments more in the week ahead, but right now the grapevine seems to have taken a turn for the conservative when it comes to high-end G5 progress in the next 6-8 months. Eventually the dual-core PowerPC 970MP will bring us 3GHz, bigger on-chip L2 caches, and a faster system controller that will offer DDR533 support.
But it may not be this next PowerMac update; with each passing day, it is looking more likely that the early-2005 update will reach 2.8GHz with a new revision to IBM's 90-nanometer PPC 970FX. There would be no other major changes in this scenario except for the addition of the ATi X800 XT as a GPU option; things like PCI Express and faster memory would have to wait until nearly this time next year....