Apple upgrades to AMD Radeon graphics
SCURRILOUS RUMOURS that Apple was going to shift back to Nvidia’s graphics chips appear to have come to nothing and Jobs’ Mob will be using AMD’s ATI Radeon graphics in its next Macs.
According to AMD, Apple will use ATI Radeons for its next lines of Apple Imac and Mac Pro tower PCs.
The high-performance AMD ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics card features 1GB of GDDR5 memory. It seems that AMD pitched the chips as being good for motion graphics, 3D modeling, rendering or animation. The ATI graphics technology will come as standard. There will be an upgrade for Mac fanbois to an ATI Radeon HD 5870 card if they want more power.
HD 5750 graphics will be available in the new 27-inch Imac. HD 5650 graphics will be available in the new 22-inch and 27-inch Imacs. HD 4670 graphics will also be available in the new 22-inch Imac.
Apple and the Green Goblin were best mates until last year when Nvidia started sending out chips that were broken, in a debacle that we called “bumpgate”. That fiasco cost Apple lots of money as it committed to offering unprecedented free replacements for three years if the Nvidia graphics chip went bad.
But these days Apple just offers users a free rubber band if something doesn’t work. µ
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