| The radically-designed, ultrahigh-bandwidth system architecture of the Power Mac G5 helps the PowerPC G5 processors perform to their full potential. Bottlenecks in the system architecture are usually what hold back the fastest processors. That’s why the Power Mac G5 system architecture has been engineered to eliminate traffic jams in your data path. The Power Mac G5 system architecture delivers phenomenal throughput for the most intensive image-editing, rendering and scientific computing tasks — without the stop-and-go traffic patterns that can choke even the fastest processors. Consider the frontside bus, for instance: There’s one for each processor for maximum throughput to and from each PowerPC G5 processor. And the point-to-point system controller allows data to move directly between all subsystems — without affecting the processor. Add to that the 400MHz, 128-bit memory bus, AGP 8X Pro graphics bus — as well as the HyperTransport interface that connects the PCI-X controller and the I/O subsystems to the system controller — and you’re looking at some impressive architectural advances that speed up the data flow inside your computer.  | 