Specifications

Velocity Engine Acceleration

The Velocity Engine is the vector processing unit in the PowerPC G5 microprocessor. System software has been

modified to take advantage of the accelerated processing that the Velocity Engine makes possible and to

support low-level operations using the Velocity Engine.

For complete information on the Velocity Engine, refer to the following Apple website:

http://developer.apple.com/hardwaredrivers/ve/index.html

Overview to the Power Mac G5

System Software