Sapphire Readies Radeon HD 5450 Low-Profile Accelerator

Wednesday, February 3 2010

Sapphire is ready with its entry-level DirectX 11 compliant graphics card based on the new ATI Radeon HD 5450. The design is a low-profile capable single-slot accelerator, with passive cooling for silent operation. This gives us a rough idea of how the move to 40 nm process helped AMD's lowest-end GPUs. This particular card has 1 GB of DDR2 memory across a 64-bit wide memory interface. As a first sighting, you can see ATI-branded memory chips on this card. Display connectivity includes DVI-D, HDMI (with 7.1ch audio), and D-Sub which protrudes out. A set of low-profile brackets is also bundled. The Cedar GPU bundles 80 stream processors and a 64-bit wide memory interface. Expect the card to be released soon, at a price targeting the sub-$50 segment.

Source: ArabHardware.net

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User comments

by jpierce55 (February 3rd - 7:14 PM) - Reply

I have a friend wanting a cheap card, and I think this would be a winner for him.

by filip007 (February 3rd - 8:26 PM) - Reply

:rolleyes: It look the same as HD4550...i hope it is any better too or faster.

by insane 360 (February 3rd - 8:58 PM) - Reply

it should be a little faster thanks to the ddr5...but i wouldn't expect too much...

would like to see a review on this site though

by Hitman.1stGame (February 3rd - 9:07 PM) - Reply

^^ 1 GB of DDR2 memory across a 64-bit wide memory interface
it's not for gaming in HD , but it will be superior to HTPC.. many people will love it

by DriedFrogPills (February 3rd - 9:19 PM) - Reply

didn't the picture of this model BTA posted in the hottest graphics card thread have a different heatsink design? though this one in a HTPC would be more space efficient

by u2konline (February 3rd - 9:57 PM) - Reply

I would think the MSI one is the best with 1GB+GDDR5+?

by Bull Dog (February 3rd - 10:33 PM) - Reply

ATI branded memory chips???

by HalfAHertz (February 3rd - 11:55 PM) - Reply

Really disappointed. I was expecting 200sps/64bit gddr5 for the 5450/5550 series :/
It's high time Ati and Nvidia did something with the igp/low level solutions - even Intel has caught up to them :D

by filip007 (February 4th - 1:32 AM) - Reply

Why 1GB junk video RAM, why not 256MB or 512MB of GDDR3 can be a lot better, videos don't need 1GB or games this card is not so why doing this better sales i guess.

Yes Intel is not that bad any more i currently use G31 on Ubuntu and Intel open source driver is more than excellent, i use system 256MB as video RAM on HD resolution and is pretty much all i need so why upgrading with some low level life card?

by u2konline (February 4th - 3:15 AM) - Reply

by: HalfAHertz
Really disappointed. I was expecting 200sps/64bit gddr5 for the 5450/5550 series :/
It's high time Ati and Nvidia did something with the igp/low level solutions - even Intel has caught up to them :D

Um MSI has a 1GB gddr5 5450 card.

by pantherx12 (February 4th - 3:16 AM) - Reply

By the way guys I assume the 5 series cards come with high memory as it may help with eyefinity.

Would make sense anyway.

by Mussels (February 4th - 4:23 AM) - Reply

by: pantherx12
By the way guys I assume the 5 series cards come with high memory as it may help with eyefinity.

Would make sense anyway.

128MB is enough for a 1080P display with 1080P HD movies playing with hardware GPU acceleration.

512MB would be overkill for 3 screens in anything but gaming. THe only reason this has 1GB is cause it doesnt cost em much extra, and thousands of morons will buy it cause "more ram = faster"

by DonInKansas (February 4th - 4:25 AM) - Reply

It's pointed at the sub-50 dollar crowd, which are HTPC/Websurfer users. This would easily be one of the top cards in that segment, especially at the low profile level.

by pantherx12 (February 4th - 4:26 AM) - Reply

by: Mussels
128MB is enough for a 1080P display with 1080P HD movies playing with hardware GPU acceleration.

512MB would be overkill for 3 screens in anything but gaming. THe only reason this has 1GB is cause it doesnt cost em much extra, and thousands of morons will buy it cause "more ram = faster"

Playing 3 old games, sorted!

This if for people playing minesweeper in full HD over 3 screens : ]

by Semi-Lobster (February 4th - 4:59 AM) - Reply

Leave it to the vendors to drag GPU DDR2 from the grave and into the DX11 era!

by filip007 (February 4th - 8:36 AM) - Reply

This sucker is actually slower than HD4550, how is this possible...?
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3734&p=13

The only benefit from this card is lower temps...well that's not that bad at lest is not coffee cooker

by Yukikaze (February 4th - 8:51 AM) - Reply

by: filip007
This sucker is actually slower than HD4550, how is this possible...?

Simple. First, it is a HD5450, not a HD5550, it shouldn't be necessarily faster - It probably aims lower. It has the same number of SPs (80) and runs DDR2 or DDR3 vs. the DDR3 the HD4550 runs. If it has slower clocks on memory or cores, it will be slower.

by TIGR (February 4th - 2:41 PM) - Reply

by: pantherx12
This if for people playing minesweeper in full HD over 3 screens : ]

Best Minesweeper game ever.

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