2012-12-21-137

[Rumour] New Apple iMacs to feature ATI Radeon HD 5750

Bright Side of News report that Apple have bought a large chunk of ATIRadeon HD 5750 cards for its iMac refresh, which BSN suggests would bein June 2010. Apple has embraced ATI Radeon graphics cards sincemid-2009, with the current iMacs shipping mostly with Radeon HD 4670 andespecially HD 4850 cards. This update comes as no surprise, as the HD5750 is indeed a direct replacement to the HD 4850, with similarperformance characteristics, with several additional features.

BSN claims this will lead to a shortage in HD 5750 supply within thenext few weeks.

While the desktop iMacs are embracing the latest in GPU technology, the notebook MacBooks are still carrying rather obsolete Geforce 9400M / 9600M GPUs. Perhaps Apple's MacBook division should take a cue from the desktop counterparts and upgrade to the latest Mobility Radeon HD 5000 series cards. Let us not even talk about how the MacBooks still ship with only Core 2 Duo CPUs.

Reference: Bright Side of News