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AMD’s Radeon Pro 5000 series GPUs offer significant graphics, video boosts for newly-released iMacs

Following up on Apple’s announcement as to its updated iMacs, the new 7nm AMD Radeon Pro Series 5000 Series GPU options are another interesting element worth looking into. The Radeon Pro 5300 GPUs feature 4GB of GDDR6 memory for the entry-level $1,799 and mid-tier $1,999 iMacs, but offer no upgrade paths to the higher tier […]

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Mac OS X 10.6.7 internal references point to widening graphics card support for future Mac hardware

Dig around inside an update’s code and you’ll find all sorts of interesting stuff. Per the tonymacx86 Blog, the Mac OS X 10.6.7 update for early 2011 Mac Book Pro models features native graphics acceleration for some Radeon HD 5000- and 6000-series cards. The supported cards are off-the-shelf graphics processing units, not Mac-only cards as […]