Reports have emerged that Apple began shipping some of its high-end Quad G5 systems containing the nVidia GeForce 7800 GT graphics card.
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It had previously been stated by Apple that systems ordered with the high-end graphics card may not ship until late into December but some of these customers received shipping notifications mid last week.
Once a backlog of orders has been cleared Apple will begin selling the "PowerMac G5 Quad Ulitimate" which will sell for around $4000 and included the 7800, 1GB RAM and a 500GB Hard Drive.
On Apple's website the card is stated to have the following specs:
- 256-bit Memory Interface
- 256MB of onboard GDDR3 SDRAM
- Total memory throughput of 32GBps
- Capable of delivering 700 million vertices per second
- and had a fill rate of 8 billion texels per second
- The card takes up a single slot and contains a Dual Link DVI connection