AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5450 Video Card Review @ [H]

AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5450 Video Card Review-- AMD's lowest-end discrete GPU to support DX11 is being launched today at $49-$59 MSRP, the ATI Radeon HD 5450. We will give you all the official information on this new video card, plus some power and temperature testing and a simple apples-to-apples DX11 game test using DiRT 2.

The ATI Radeon HD 5450 is not meant to provide the best gaming experience, but it does bring DX11 API support and other features like Eyefinity (albeit useless to gamers) down to the $50 price point. This means that AMD now has a DX11 GPU in every market segment, while the competition simply does not.

Nice and cool. Thanks for the review. Seems like a good backup card for me.

Two or three of these in CrossFire on the cheap?

Kick ASS Nice wow the price !!! dx 11 to awesome !!

Meh...the 4450 is faster...a little let down...was hoping for a halved 5670. 200 Pixel shaders, and a 64-bit bus

Originally Posted by anthrex

Nice and cool. Thanks for the review. Seems like a good backup card for me.

That's not a review, it's a two page fucking add.

perfect for building computers for friends and co-workers that dont game at all and want hardware accellerated video.

Im definatly going to be recomending these.

This makes seven discrete DX11 cards from AMD so far, I think. I'm impressed there's DX11 *and* EyeFinity on a $49 card, makes a great non-gamer card for building new machines with.

Originally Posted by iTYPE

That's not a review, it's a two page fucking add.

You mean they should do like every other site and bench it against GTX295 and 5970s and in the end go "it doesn't compare to these so it's a bad card don't buy it"? No, they should look at it for what it is - a low profile low power low performance megabudget card, and say that "yes, it plays DX11 games if you cut everything down but don't expect too much".

anandtech did a better review:
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3734&p=1

Their most interesting conclusion is that it is near identical to a 4550 except it has a slightly faster 650Mhz core clock vs the 600Mhz of the 4550 yet the 4550 consistently beats it in games. Hence clock for clock the 4000 series is quicker then the 5000 series.

Was actually of interest to me as I am looking for a dirt cheap card to let my nieces old machine play a little sims 3, think the 4550 is still the winner there.

Originally Posted by iTYPE

That's not a review, it's a two page fucking add.

This was not a typical review per se, $50 cards we don't spend a lot of time on, information is posted so you know what the 5450 is, and some power, temp and DX11 performance data.

Originally Posted by HotBBQ

Two or three of these in CrossFire on the cheap?

I don't see the appropriate header for XFire...does ATi allow for multi-card configs without using a bridge cable?

Originally Posted by iTYPE

That's not a review, it's a two page fucking add.

This is [H]ardOCP....why should Steve and Kyle spend time reviewing a card that won't be useful to the majority of the site's audience? Most of us look for a card that can play, any if not all, games at 1680x1050 or higher. It was stated as being an HTPC card and not much more...end of story.

Originally Posted by HotBBQ

Two or three of these in CrossFire on the cheap?

Yeah, spend $150 for 3 of the things and get less than 5670 performance. Sounds good to me

Now we have a DX11 card we can buy for our mothers.

ha, very nice

Ummm HTPC? $50, does HD Audio, 7.1 LPCM, passive cooling sounds like a winner!

Originally Posted by Digital Viper-X-

Ummm HTPC? $50, does HD Audio, 7.1 LPCM, passive cooling sounds like a winner!

Yup - this is an absolutely ideal HTPC card.

Originally Posted by tubular

Now we have a DX11 card we can buy for our mothers.

ha, very nice

Don't knock the Aero Shake Jello!

Just ordered one for the work pc.

instead of dualscreen setup, 3 screens, there is simply not enough desktop space with 2 screens..... 3x19" is simply <3 or 20". nothing bigger for work oriented setups is reccomended, used to have matrox but well, it didnt have capabilities to do simple simple 3d... :S

For low end cards like this, could you include a clarkdale/h55 or h57 system using the integrated graphics in the charts, since they are going after the same HTPC market?

Did they have to make the heatsink that wide though? Can you bend it or shave it off so you can fit it into one slot?