ATI Radeon 9600 Pro and 9600 XTThe Apple branded Radeon 9600 Pro is an AGP 8x card compatible withAGP 4x and 8x slots and first shipped with the top-endin mid-2003. The 9600 XT version shipped with the top-end, and the 2005shipped with a card simply marked Radeon 9600.The ATI version, the Radeon 9600 Pro PC & Mac Edition, is an AGP 4x cardthat supports both Macs (with 4x and 8x AGP) and PCs.Flashed AGP 8x video cards are not compatible with theMystic/Gigabit Ethernet, Digital Audio, Cube, Quicksilver, and MirrorDrive Door Power Mac G4 without modification. As explained by, Appleuses pins 3 and 11 on the back of the card to power ADC monitors. Thesepins must be disabled or your Mac will not boot with the cardinstalled. Full details and instructions are on the Mac Elitewebsite.This video card requires more power than the AGP slot provides, soyou will need to tap power from your Power Mac's power supply, whichmay require a power splitter.
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That's because the flashing software only recognises half of a 128 KiB flash chip when soldered on a PC 9800 (stock flash is 64 KiB, which is too small to hold a.
Details. GPU speed: 400 MHz. Video memory: 256 MB. Memory speed: 540 MHz. Memory bus: 256 bits. Resolutions: 640 x 480 to 2048 x 1536. Ports: DVI-I and ADC on Apple version; Dual-link DVI-I onATI version (includes one DVI-to-VGA adapter).
Dual monitor support: yes. Cooling fan: yes. Minimum OS: Mac OS X 10.3.6.
Compatible with: and, and Power Mac G5 models with AGP (excludes Power Mac G5 Dual andG5 Quad, which use PCIe). Some 9600s may be compatible with, and, but someare not and ATI does not support the card on these Macs.Online Resources., ATI., Anand Tech, 2005.08.19., Accelerate Your Mac, lastupdated 2006.05.23Benchmarks., Bare Feats,2005.08.19. The Radeon 9600 Pro with AGP 4x benchmarks slower than theApple-branded 9600 XP with AGP 8x., Bare Feats, 2004.06.09.
Various versions of 9800 vs. Radeon9600 and GeForce 5200., Bare Feats, 2005.05.05.
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The Radeon9600 XT benchmarks a bit better than the 9650, but well behind the9800 SE., Bare Feats,2005.09.22. Short answer: No, and with dual 800 MHz G4 CPUs, there'slittle difference between the Radeon 9600 and 9800. But put in dual2.0 GHz CPUs, and the 9800 easily runs ahead of the 9600.
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