Wednesday, February 3rd 2010
Sapphire Readies Radeon HD 5450 Low-Profile Accelerator
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
18 Comments on Sapphire Readies Radeon HD 5450 Low-Profile Accelerator
would like to see a review on this site though
it's not for gaming in HD , but it will be superior to HTPC.. many people will love it
It's high time Ati and Nvidia did something with the igp/low level solutions - even Intel has caught up to them :D
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?
Would make sense anyway.
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"
This if for people playing minesweeper in full HD over 3 screens : ]
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