ATI Radeon Hard disk drive 5450 in Detail

The Radeon Hard disk drive 5450 is the commencement graphics bill of fare in the Hard disk drive 5000 serial that tin be cooled passively, making it a solid selection for HTPC systems. The bill of fare is said to consume just xix watts of power under load, which is a fraction of the 61 watts needed to power the Radeon Hd 5670 or the 108 watts on the Radeon HD 5770.

A big plus about the Radeon Hd 5450 consuming then piffling power is that information technology doesn't require an external power source. The PCI Limited bus lone is capable of delivering enough current to this card.

The Radeon Hd 5450 also generates very little heat and every bit nosotros mentioned before, it tin be passively cooled. Notwithstanding, the sample we received from AMD used a tiny 40mm fan that cools an equally minor 45mm x 45mm heatsink. The passively cooled reference blueprint card features a much larger dual-slot heatsink that measures 85mm long, 55mm wide and 30mm tall.

Compared to the Radeon HD 5670, which measures 17cm, the Radeon HD 5450 is actually the same length. This is too the same as the GeForce GT 240 and should fit in whatever example that tin support a mATX motherboard. The Radeon HD 5450 uses a depression-profile pattern measuring simply five.5cm tall, whereas a typical graphics card is 9.5cm tall.

The core configuration of the Radeon HD 5450 includes 80 SPUs, viii TAUs (Texture Address Units) and 4 ROPs (Rasterization Operator Units). That's considerably less than other cards in the series, and simply the same as the previous generation Radeon HD 4350 and 4550.

Core clock speed is set at 650 MHz, which should be proficient for 104 gigaflops of raw computing power, while GDDR3 memory operates at 800MHz. The Radeon Hard disk drive 5450 tin come configured with either 512MB or 1GB of memory -- the sample we are reviewing today features 1GB. As with all depression-end graphics cards nosotros highly recommend you lot purchase the everyman retentivity chapters model possible. This is because they are cheaper and do not cede much if any performance.

There are no bridge connectors on the Radeon Hard disk drive 5450, but it'south nevertheless possible to link ii of these graphics cards through internal CrossFireX.

The Radeon HD 5450 keeps Eyefinity support on select models, and then if this is the feature y'all are looking for on a budget card, make sure your selected make and model tin can support it. Similar its higher-end variants in the 5000 series, you lot can hook upwardly to three high resolution monitors (upwardly to 2560x1600) to this board.