ATI Radeon HD 5450: Direct3D 11 Capabilities for $50
ATI has released a new entry level graphics card: the Radeon HD 5450.
Nice product with very small power consumption (idle=6 watts and load=19 watts), zero noise with passive cooling and all modern APIs: OpenGL 3, Direct3D 11 and OpenCL. And of course this card is perfectly suited for home theater PC (HTPC) users.
ATI RAdeon HD 5450 features
- GPU: Cedar @ 650MHz / 40nm
- Stream processors: 80 (1 OpenCL compute unit see HERE for more details)
- Memory: 512MB / 1024MB DDR2 or DDR3 @ 1600MHz / 64-bit
- Texture units: 8
- Color ROPs: 4
- Z / Stencil ROPs: 16
- 3D APIs: OpenGL 3.2, Direct3D 11
- GPU Computing: OpenCL 1.0, DirectCompute 11
- Price: $50
- CrossFire bridgeless (no CrossFire connector required)
- TDP: 19.1 W (idle: 6.4 watts)
Reviews
- ATI Radeon HD 5450 512MB DDR3 Video Card Review
- Sapphire Radeon HD 5450 512MB DDR3 Review
- ATI Radeon HD 5450: DX11 On The Cheap
- AMD’s Radeon HD 5450: The Next Step In HTPC Video Cards
Just for the sake of memory here is a little summary of Radeom family:
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[...] are a roundup of new Radeon HD 5450 offered by graphics cards [...]
[...] card could be nice for HTPC (Home Theater PC) but AMD’s reference board is rather loud so the Radeon HD 5450 with its passive cooling is a better choice for HTPC [...]
[...] CrossFire: when a Radeon HD 5450 is present, you can enable CrossFire support: HD 4290 + H [...]
[...] The first pictures of upcoming AMD cards appear on the Net. Today, we have the Radeon HD 6870, based on the Cayman XT GPU, that will replace the Radeon HD 5870. The second picture is the HD 6350, based on the Caicos GPU, than will replace the HD 5450. [...]