Compatibility

Here is a compatibility chart for Retail/OEM/Flashed cards for Power Macs G4 & G5 AGP :

Sawtooth Gigabit Ethernet Digital Audio Quicksilver 2001 Quicksilver 2002 G4 MDD G4 Firewire 800 Power Mac G5
GeForce 2/3/4 ⁵ yes yes yes yes yes yes yes no
GeForce 5200/5500 yes yes 1 yes 1 yes 1 yes 1 yes 1 yes yes
GeForce 6200 ³ yes yes yes 1 yes 1 yes 1 no no yes
GeForce 6600/6600GT ³ no no yes ¹ yes ¹ yes ¹ yes ¹ yes ¹ yes
GeForce 6800/GT/Ultra ⁴ no no yes ¹ yes ¹ yes ¹ no no yes
GeForce 7800GS ³ no no yes ¹ yes ¹ yes ¹ yes ¹ yes ¹ yes
Radeon 7000/7500 ⁵ yes yes yes yes yes yes yes no
Radeon 8500/9000 ⁵ yes yes yes yes yes yes yes no
Radeon 9200 ⁵ yes yes ¹ yes ¹ yes ¹ yes ¹ yes ¹ yes ¹ yes
Radeon 9600 no no yes ¹ ² yes ¹ ² yes ¹ ² yes ¹ yes ¹ yes
Radeon 9500/9700/9800 yes yes ¹ yes ¹ yes ¹ yes ¹ yes ¹ yes ¹ yes
Radeon X800/X850 ⁴ no no yes ¹ yes ¹ yes ¹ yes ¹ yes ¹ yes

¹ Requires taping or cutting Pins 3 & 11
² Might not work in this Power Mac model
³ Minimum OS : OS X Tiger 10.4.3
⁴ Minimum OS : OS X Panther 10.3.9
⁵ Has Mac OS 9 support

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