[arng1]

Hey guys, I was wondering how well the new imacs 8800gs performs. Is it in anyway comparible to an x1900 in the mac pro? How well would it perform with apps like photoshop and aperture, as well as games? Just asking because I was looking for tests online and most I found were pretty vague. Thanks!

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Apple iMac 3.06GHz unboxing, hands-on, and benchmarking - Engadget

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Also check out this post in the "New iMacs" thread.

Originally Posted by P

...the desktop 8800 GS doesn't support 512 MB RAM. It has a 192 bit bus, and thus supports 384 MB or 768 MB. Is Apple doing some private underclocking again, taking an 8800 GT or even 8800M GT and underclocking it to fit inside the TDP? It's hard to find which chip it is - Apple says that it's 2.2x faster than the Radeon 2600 Pro, but an 8800 is much faster than that. The only chip that's close to twice the 2600 Pro is the Radeon 3850 - not even 9600 GT level.

EDIT: An underclocked 8800M GT would fit that rather precisely, actually. 8800M GT is twice 8700M GT. 8700M GT is roughly comparable to Mobile Radeon 2600 XT. Apple's "Radeon 2600 Pro" is an underclocked XT. This means that we have something just under a desktop 9600 GT - not bad, by any means, but no 8800 GT.

So basically the "8800GS" is not really an 8800GS, but rather a different GPU that performs somewhere below an 8800GT but above the Radeon HD2600 Pro.

I'd say it's probably noticeably faster than the X1900 XT, but not astonishingly so. I wouldn't upgrade from a Mac Pro to a new iMac just to get the 8800GS, but it should still be a fair bit better in almost all games.

[arng1]

thanks alot, that was the answer I was looking for.