Wednesday, January 13th 2010
AMD Cedar Reference Design Board Pictured
AMD's entry-level graphics processor in its DirectX 11 compliant generation, the Radeon HD 5000 series is codenamed "Cedar". This GPU is expected to be half as powerful as the "Redwood" GPU, with an expected 200 stream processors, 64-bit GDDR5/GDDR3 memory interface, and DirectX 11 compliance. It will make for two initial product SKUs: the Radeon HD 5400 series (probably Cedar with GDDR3 memory), and Radeon HD 5500 series (probably Cedar with GDDR5 memory). There are three models slated for release later this month: Radeon HD 5450, Radeon HD 5550, and Radeon HD 5570.
A low-profile reference design engineering sample's picture made it to our friends at Arab Hardware. The picture reveals a low-profile design which is slightly longer than the PCI-Express interface itself, keeps the black PCB color theme for the HD 5000 series going, and uses a tiny GPU cooler. DVI-D and DisplayPort connectors are located on the card, while a full-height bracket can expand the connectivity with a D-Sub connector. Products based on the Cedar GPU are expected to be positioned well within the $100 mark, and aimed at media-centric home users and full-time HTPCs.
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Arab Hardware Forums
A low-profile reference design engineering sample's picture made it to our friends at Arab Hardware. The picture reveals a low-profile design which is slightly longer than the PCI-Express interface itself, keeps the black PCB color theme for the HD 5000 series going, and uses a tiny GPU cooler. DVI-D and DisplayPort connectors are located on the card, while a full-height bracket can expand the connectivity with a D-Sub connector. Products based on the Cedar GPU are expected to be positioned well within the $100 mark, and aimed at media-centric home users and full-time HTPCs.
42 Comments on AMD Cedar Reference Design Board Pictured
I do find it silly that AMD calls a chip Cedar while Intel has Cedar Mill.
Cedar, Cypress, Redwood, Juniper...they're all trees, which are "evergreen" in nature.
how much will these 5400 and 5300 series cost?
if this powerful enough low end gpu trend continue, next year we we will have a mobo with a nice integrated video card powerful enough to play crysis
U COULD FIND A WHOLE MEM (or even GPU) PHASE ON ELECTROLYTIC CAPS!!!!!!!!!
8600GT had electrolytic!8400...and of course 43xx etc.
I hope some OEM will release passive cooled version.
haven't seen a review of a graphic card that has GDDR5 and a 64bit bus.
its slower than any AMD graphicscard from the 3 series, although memory bandwidth is lower on 3450> 33xx 32xx 24xx 23xx 22xx ...
When will system memory ever be fast ? (for igp's)
Core I7 however have a little potential, trichannel, 28 gb/sec = a 7600 GT max OC.
I'm very interested in the power consumption number though, these things should be killer for HTPC setups.