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)

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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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