Specifications

Technical Specifications

Hardware

Processor

• Single 2GHz or dual 2.3GHz PowerPC G5 processors

– PowerPC processor architecture with 64-bit data paths and registers

– Native support for 32-bit application code

– 512K on-chip L2 cache running at processor speed

– Dual-pipeline Velocity Engine for 128-bit single-instruction, multiple-data

(SIMD) processing

– Two independent double-precision floating-point units and two integer units

– Advanced three-stage branch prediction logic

• 64-bit, 1GHz or 1.15GHz frontside bus per processor, supporting up to 18.4GB/s data

throughput

• Point-to-point system controller with support for ECC memory

Memory

• 128-bit data paths for up to 6.4GB/s memory throughput

• Data protection using Error Correction Code (ECC) logic

• Eight slots supporting up to 16GB of DDR SDRAM using the following DIMMs (in pairs):

– 256MB DIMMs (PC3200, 400MHz ECC)

– 512MB DIMMs (PC3200, 400MHz ECC)

– 1GB DIMMs (PC3200, 400MHz ECC)

– 2GB DIMMs (PC3200, 400MHz ECC)

I/O connections

• Two open 12-inch, 64-bit PCI-X slots, running at up to 133MHz with one card installed

or up to 100MHz with two cards installed; support for 32-bit or 64-bit 3.3V Universal

PCI cards running at 33MHz or 66MHz

• PCI and PCI-X cards available as build-to-order options for Xserve G5 include the

following:

– Apple Fibre Channel PCI-X Card

– Hardware RAID PCI card

– Apple PCI-X Gigabit Ethernet Card

– Dual-channel Ultra320 SCSI PCI-X card

– PCI VGA video card

• Two independent 10/100/1000BASE-T (Gigabit) RJ-45 Ethernet interfaces on main

logic board

• Two FireWire 800 ports on back panel and one FireWire 400 port on front panel;

15W total power

• Two USB 2.0 ports (480Mb/s each)

• One DB-9 serial port (RS-232)

Technology Overview

Xserve G5