• ATI HD5450

    ATI HD5450

    Roydon Cerejo, Feb 08, 2010 1649 hrs IST

    Not much of an upgrade over the previous offering

    40nm fabrication, low power draw, doesn't heat up much, good for HTPC

    Not quite powerful compared to its predecessor

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Believe it or not, entry level cards actually sell like hot cakes in India and this is where majority of the profits lie. Even though we may consider a 5K graphics card to be cheap, most PC users do not want to spend that kind of money for something that will be used primarily for playing games. Yes, nowadays you can do a lot more with your graphics card apart from gaming but again majority of the people don't bother with that as well.

Coming back to today's review, we have the last piece of the 'Evergreen' line-up from ATI -the 54xx series. This being an entry-level card is targeted at HTPC users or some one who's looking for something slightly better than onboard graphics. Theses cards aren't designed for gaming but you could probably get away with some old titles on medium settings. The competition in this segment is quite fierce, as there are many variants in the 4xxx series, like the HD4350, HD4550, HD4650 and Nvidia's G210 and GT220. All these cards are priced under the 3.5K price bracket and if you look at the chart below, there is a striking resemblance between the HD4550 and the HD5450. 



The HD5450 has the exact same number of stream processors, texture units, memory bus and Raster Operations (ROP). However, now it has a 40nm fabrication and the speed of the core has been bumped up by 50Hz. In terms of performance I don't think the HD5450 would give any major boost in games.

There was no bundle included since this is a reference card. Next let's take a closer look at the card and find out if it is worth buying.


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Guru Raj
,Delhi, on Feb 09, 2010 11:10 PM
correct me if i am wrong but i am pretty damn sure that HD 4550 was manufactured @ 55nm node not 40nm please change that , also cant you see that 4550 is replaced by the 5450 in the sense that the base performance of the 5000 series in more that 4000 series also please give your email id as reference i dont want put such corrections under comments .
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Roydon
,Mumbai, on Feb 10, 2010 05:07 PM
There was a mistake in the graph which is fixed now. Also the HD5450 could have performed a lot better and a FPS jump of 2 or 3 over the HD4550 does not make any real world difference.
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Anil Harwani
,Mumbai, on Feb 09, 2010 10:15 PM
do u have any idea or something called as product placement this card is supposed to be a replacement for HD 4350 in the low end as it is a brand new Dx11 card your sure to pay a premium for it . Also i would like to point out again how u have conveniently neglected the idea or addons like eyefinity, stream that you get out of the new system neither do u stress on the fact that this passive cooler does wonders for a HTPC if u have ever built one i presume u seem to categorize the market in terms of price my friend learn that in our country prices are not a indication of performance difference please get your basics right i have no problems with your benchmarks and everything just that your understanding of this segment misleads many a consumer so please do some of your homework.
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