Apple Makes Radeon X850 XT Video Card a BTO Option on Power Macs

Apple on Tuesday made ATIis Radeon X850 XT video card a build-to-order (BTO) option on Power Mac G5 computers ordered from the online Apple Store.

The Radeon X850 XT features 256MB DDR SDRAM and memory bandwidth of 34.6GB per second, with the ability to pump more than 700 million vertices and over 8 billion textured pixels per second. The card uses one PCI slot and can drive a pair of displays, including a 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display on its DVI port. Its other port is an ADC (Apple Display Connector) jack.