AMD ATI Radeon HD 5450

VLIW5 (Cedar)
Architecture
Entry-level
Product Tier
80
Shader Cores
4
ROPs
8
TMUs
No RT
Ray Tracing
0.5 GB
Memory
DDR2
Memory Type
6.4 GB/s
Bandwidth
19 W
TDP
GPU Snapshot
Release date:Feb 4, 2010Price at Launch:$49
Type:DesktopArchitecture:VLIW5 (Cedar)
Generation:Radeon HD 5000 seriesProduct Tier:Entry-level
VRAM Capacity:0.5 GBTotal Board Power:19 W
Core Configuration
Shader Cores:80TMUs:8
ROPs:4L2 Cache:128 KB
Memory
VRAM Capacity:0.5 GBMemory Type:DDR2
Memory Speed:0.800 GbpsMemory Bus:64-bit
Bandwidth:6.4 TB/s
Graphics Processing
Base Clock:0.65 GHzFP32 Throughput:0.104 TFLOPs
Ray Tracing:NoProcess Size:40nm
Process Name:TSMC 40nmDie Size:59 mm²
Power & Connectivity
Total Board Power:19 WPower Connectors:None
Bus Interface:PCIe 2.0 x16HDMI Support:HDMI 1.3
DSC:NoMax Displays:3
Media & Software Support
DirectX Support:11.2Shader Model:5.0
OpenGL Version:4.4

Reviews and Ratings

78

Average Score

Based on 12 reviews

Reviewers Liked

  • Silent
  • Displayport
  • Flawless playing HD material

Reviewers Didn't Like

  • Performance
100

ATI finally releases a low-cost HD 5000-series card for media systems. We put it to the test ATI began to release its latest range of graphics cards back in September with the Radeon HD 5870, but it’s taken until February for the range to reach...

By Channel Pro on
80

What the Radeon HD 5450 graphics card brings to the party depends on what you want it for. It doesn't help general productivity - it might reduce the demand on the main memory by integrated graphics, but this, in our test, makes no difference to...

By Bit-tech.net on
70

ATI seems to have hit a brick wall with their low-end graphics cards, as both the HD5670 and the newly launched HD5450 fail to impress. The HD5450 looks similar to the HD4550 on paper and even performs exactly the same, which is surprising, as it...

By TechTree on
40

The card at a glance ATI supplied us with a stock card for our tests. It has a passive (fanless) double decker cooling system. This makes the cooler large but quiet. There are three video outs, a DVI, a VGA and an HDMI. As we’ve seen, the HDMI...

By DigitalVersus on
89

Looking at the performance of the ATI Radeon HD5450, you have to give up the idea that this is going to be any kind of solution for a gaming rig. In modern FPS games, it was well below any reasonable person's expectation for visual quality. Even at...

By Benchmark Reviews on
95

With our look at NVIDIA's three lowest-end cards just two weeks ago, and our look at the HD 5450 today, and not to mention our upcoming look at the HD 5570, I can't help but feel like I've stepped into some sort of low-end dimension. There...

By Techgage on
83

No good for gaming but it can handle Blu-ray, and it's cheap and small enough for any media PC...

By PC Pro on
65

The Radeon HD 5450 may well find a home in systems where multimedia excellence, and not 3D grunt, is the most enviable criterion. Class-leading multi-monitor setup and a robust video engine do it favours, and if partners can roll in passively-cooled...

By HEXUS.net on
78

Those looking for an inexpensive way to add a little graphics muscle to a small desktop tower or media PC will find the Radeon HD 5450 enticing. But if you play demanding games, a larger, pricier card is a better buy....

By Computer Shopper on

You can get this card for around 55-60$ which is quite expensive on my opinion, when you can get cards that are 1% slower for 15-20$ less. Now if you need a silent card this is your choice, it comes with DirectX11 and Eyeinfinity support so you get...

By Rbmods.com on

ATI Radeon HD 5450 512MB: According to reviews at HardwareCanucks and AnandTech, the Radeon HD 5450, as we expected, delivers poor modern gaming performance, only capable of smooth play in less GPU-intensive games, and even then at lower resolutions...

By SilentPC Review on

Well this card is small, cooler is unimpressive, it only has 512MB DDR3 memory, oh yeah and it is pretty freakin amazing. If you had told me a year ago that I would be able to use this type of technology for under $50 I would have laughed in your...

By OverclockersQH on