AMD’s Radeon HD 5450: The Next Step In HTPC Video Cards

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• Purri - Monday, March 8, 2010 - link

  Ok, so i read a lot of comments that the cheap passive DP-Adapters wont work for a EyeFinity 3 Monitor setup.
  
  But, can i use this card for a 3 monitor windows-desktop setup without eyefinity - or do i need an expensive adapter for this too?
  
  I'm looking for a cheapish, passivly(silent) cooled card that supports 3 monitors for windows applications, that has enough performance to play a few old games now and then (like quake3) on 1 monitor.
  
  Will this card work?

• waqarshigri - Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - link

  yes of course it has amd eyefinity technology .... i played new games on it like nfs run,call of duty MW3, battlefield 3,

• plopke - Friday, February 5, 2010 - link

  :o what about the 5830 , wasn't it delayed until the 5th. It is suddenly very quiet about it on all techsite. And not launched today.

• yyrkoon - Thursday, February 4, 2010 - link

  Your charts are all buggered up. Just looking over the charts, in Crysis: Warhead, you test the nvidia 9600GT for performance. Ok fine. Then we move a long to the Power consumption charts, and you omit the 9600GT for the 9500GT ? Better still, we move to both heat tests, and both of these card are omitted.
  
  WTH ?! Come on guys, is there something wrong with a bit of consistency ?

• Ryan Smith - Friday, February 5, 2010 - link

  Some of those cards are out of Anand's personal collection, and I don't have a matching card. We have near-identical hardware that produces the same performance numbers; however we can't replicate the power/noise/temperature data due to differences in cases and environment.
  
  So I can put his cards in our performance tests, but I can't use his cards for power/temp/noise testing. It's not perfect, but it allows us to bring you the most data we can.

• yyrkoon - Friday, February 5, 2010 - link

  Well, the only real gripe that I have here is that I actually own a 9600GT. Since we moved last year, and are completely off grid ( solar / wind ), I would have liked to compare power consumption between the two. Without having to actually buy something to find out.
  
  Oh well, nothing can be done about it now I suppose.
  
  I can say however that a 9600GT in a P35 system with a Core 2 E6550, 4GB of ram, and 4 Seagate barracudas uses ~167-168W idle. While gaming, the most CPU/GPU intensive games for me were world in conflict, and Hellgate: London. The two games "sucked down" 220-227W at the wall. This system was also moderately over clocked to get the memory and "FSB" at 1:1. Also these numbers are pretty close, but not super accurate, But as close as I can come eyeballing a kill-a-watt while trying to create a few numbers. The power supply was an 80Plus 500W variant. Manufactured by Seasonic if anyone must know( Antec EarthWATTS 500 ).

• yyrkoon - Friday, February 5, 2010 - link

  Ah I forgot. The numbers I gave for the "complete" system at the wall included powering a 19" WS LCD that consistently uses 23W.

• dagamer34 - Thursday, February 4, 2010 - link

  Where's the low-profile 5650?? I don't want to downgrade my 4650 to a 5450 just for HD bitstreaming. =/

• Roy2001 - Thursday, February 4, 2010 - link

  Video game is on XBOX360 and Wii, so i3-530 for $117 is a better solution for me. It supports bitstream through HDMI too. My 2 cents.

• Taft12 - Thursday, February 4, 2010 - link

  I apologize if this has been confirmed already, but does this mean we won't see a chip from ATI that falls between 5450 and 5670?
  
  There were four GPUs in this range last gen (4350, 4550, 4650, 4670)