Home › Product Finder › Graphics Cards

AMD ATI Radeon HD 5450 GDDR3 512MB PCIe

Based on 13 reviews

Excellent:

5
Good:

3
Average:

3
Bad:

2

Pros

Silent, Displayport, Flawless playing HD material
Modern feature set, Extremely low power consumption, Aggressive power modulation of GPU and RAM, Best video quality currently available, HDMI, VGA and DVI interfaces on single slot, Cool, silent operation, Truly awesome looks, Very low heat generation
Price, Size, Features, New Display Port Connector, Eyenfinity, Bluray Playback, Quiet (even with the fan version), Cross Fire Support, Direct X 11.
Low price; passively cooled, half-height board means models will be available to fit slim PC cases; low power requirements

Cons

Performance, PriceFind more videocard reviews at testseek.com
Not quite powerful compared to its predecessor
Highend gaming titles are almost impossible to play, AIB partners will probably mess with the good looks
Really, None; for its Price it Surpassed my Expectations by a Longshot
Metal cooler is large; limited gaming performance in current games

By Channel Pro on October 01, 2011

ATI finally releases a low-cost HD 5000-series card for media systems. We put it to the test ATI began to release its latest range of graphics cards back in September with the Radeon HD 5870, but it’s taken until February for the range to reach...

100
By Rbmods.com on February 11, 2010

You can get this card for around 55-60$ which is quite expensive on my opinion, when you can get cards that are 1% slower for 15-20$ less. Now if you need a silent card this is your choice, it comes with DirectX11 and Eyeinfinity support so you get...

-
By Bit-tech.net on February 09, 2010

What the Radeon HD 5450 graphics card brings to the party depends on what you want it for. It doesn't help general productivity - it might reduce the demand on the main memory by integrated graphics, but this, in our test, makes no difference to...

80
By SilentPC Review on February 08, 2010

ATI Radeon HD 5450 512MB: According to reviews at HardwareCanucks and AnandTech, the Radeon HD 5450, as we expected, delivers poor modern gaming performance, only capable of smooth play in less GPU-intensive games, and even then at lower resolutions...

-
By TechTree on February 08, 2010

ATI seems to have hit a brick wall with their low-end graphics cards, as both the HD5670 and the newly launched HD5450 fail to impress. The HD5450 looks similar to the HD4550 on paper and even performs exactly the same, which is surprising, as it...

70
By DigitalVersus on February 06, 2010

The card at a glance ATI supplied us with a stock card for our tests. It has a passive (fanless) double decker cooling system. This makes the cooler large but quiet. There are three video outs, a DVI, a VGA and an HDMI. As we’ve seen, the HDMI...

40
By ExtremeTech on February 04, 2010

Yes, the 5450 has support for DirectX 11 and Eyefinity. But its gaming performance is so dismal—even at the touted 1,280-by-1,024 resolution—that you're going to derive very little, if any, practical benefit from either technology. Users will...

-
By HardOCP on February 04, 2010

The ATI Radeon HD 5450 is not meant to provide the best gaming experience, but it does bring DX11 API support and other features like Eyefinity (albeit useless to gamers) down to the $50 price point. This means that AMD now has a DX11 GPU in every...

-
By HotHardware on February 04, 2010

The Radeon HD 5450's gaming performance was quite low, relatively speaking of course. The card sports a DX11-class GPU, but its paltry compliment of stream processors, ROPs, and texture units, in conjunction with its low memory bandwidth result in...

-
By HEXUS.net on February 04, 2010

The Radeon HD 5450 may well find a home in systems where multimedia excellence, and not 3D grunt, is the most enviable criterion. Class-leading multi-monitor setup and a robust video engine do it favours, and if partners can roll in passively-cooled...

65