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We have collected 2 reviews of the ATI Radeon HD 5450. Experts rate ATI Radeon HD 5450 4/10. Reviewsor.com helps you find reviews, best prices, user reviews of the ATI Radeon HD 5450 and ATI Graphics cards.
ATI are bringing out its Radeon HD 5000 cards at quite a rate at the moment. Our featured card today is the 5450. Any good for gaming? Nah. HTPC? Yes! ATI sent us a test example to give us the opportunity of taking a look around this Radeon HD 5450 512 MB, on sale for under £35. First of all, under no circumstances is this a card for gamers. We set our tests at low resolution (1280 x 1024 pixels) and our graph below speaks for itself: You can consult the detailed results in our face-off but you'll see that this model doesn't have enough oomph for recent titles at any sort of decent settings levels. Old games like Counter Strike Source may run, but don't count on it. A useless card then? Not necessarily. The 5450 does give you a couple of interesting options. The first, standard one, is hardware acceleration for HD video. What happens is, when you play HD video, the graphics card relieves the processor by taking over the decoding. The other advantage is the HDMI out that can transit the audio signal. Better still, it can transit HD Dolby Digital and DTS signals to an audio amp in bitstream. Together, these two options make the card a good choice for computers set up for playing videos and that you link up to your television.
Over the course of the past four months or so, AMD has been on a tear, releasing a slew of new DirectX 11-class GPUs at price points ranging from approximately $600 all the way on down to about $100. All the while, AMD was also up front about the release schedule for many upcoming, future products. If you remember back to some of our previous Radeon HD 5000 series coverage, we showed you a picture of this slide, that outlined AMD's plans to launch the GPUs codenamed Redwood and Cedar sometime in Q1 2010. Redwood became the Radeon HD 5670 and today we can finally spill the beans on the first iteration of Cedar. Now, 135 days after the arrival of the Radeon HD 5870, AMD is at the ready with the antithesis of that card, the Radeon HD 5450. Whereas the Radeon HD 5870 is AMD's fastest and most powerful single GPU, the Radeon HD 5450 is the low-power, entry-level variant of the Radeon HD 5000 series GPU architecture. As you'd probably expect, the Radeon HD 5450 supports DX11 (of course), along with ATI Eyefinity technology, AVIVO, PowerPlay and all of the other features inherent to the HD 5000 series. Take a peek at the specs below to familiarize yourself with the card and then we'll move on to the fun stuff.
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Radeon HD5450 512MB Pcie DDR3 | $36.34 | See it |
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Msi Ati Radeon Hd5450 512mb Ddr3 Vga/dvi/hdmi Low-profile Pci-e Video Card | $39.99 | See it |
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Ati Radeon Hd 5450 512mb Pci Express Pci-e X16 Dvi+hdmi+vga Video Graphics Card | $41.99 | See it |
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Powercolor Ati Radeon Hd5450 512mb Ddr3 Vga/dvi/hdmi Pci-express Video Card | $44.99 | See it |
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Powercolor Ati Radeon Hd5450 512mb Ddr3 Vga/dvi/hdmi Pci-express Video Card(go | $46.99 | See it |
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Powercolor Ati Radeon Hd5450 512mb Ddr3 Vga/dvi/hdmi Pci-express Video Card Pc-5 | $46.99 | See it |
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Axle3d Ati Radeon Hd 5450 1gb Ddr3 Pci Express W/ Vga + Dvi + Hdmi Video Card | $59.95 | See it |
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Jaton ATI Radeon HD5450 512MB DDR3 VGA/DVI/HDMI Low Profile PCI Video Card VIDEO-339PCI-HLX | $102.4 | See it |