The extra memory will certainly not benefit your HTPC playback and we strongly doubt it will benefit your gaming, since the card cannot shift that amount of data fast enough to be worthwhile anyway. Ignore the 1GB at £10-15 more because it makes the HD 5450 extortionately expensive for what it offers. So far we've only seen Sapphire and HIS do the passive option and it even remains single slot - win-win! Do note though: Sapphire sells (useful) HDMI and (useless) DiaplayPort versions separately, at probably different cost since HDMI requires a license to use, so make sure you choose the right one (HDMI) before you buy!įor HTPC guys, it's potentially a perfect upgrade: for example, start off with just a 785G motherboard and should you get more serious drop in the ~£40 HD 5450 512MB. If you have the space - go passive - and you will thank us for removing an whiney, annoying little fan from your PC. The big red heatsink also means its dual slot, but passively cooled certainly wins our favour compared to the fans a lot of ATI partners seem to be using.
RADEON HD 5450 DRIVER
If you need it, check that the ATI partner does before you buy - for budget graphics cards where margins are thin, many partners will avoid giving us an extra bracket in the box: you will probably only get a card and driver disc. In terms of the reference model from ATI, it can be a half height graphics card if you remove the D-Sub option, but ATI didn't provide us with an extra bracket. Either way, AMD's latest UVD pretty much matches Intel's GMA HD on paper. We've read AMD does include support for dual audio stream processing, but we cannot find whether they are HD-capable or not.
RADEON HD 5450 FULL
In addition to this, UVD2.2 has full support for BD-Live including picture in picture, hardware post processing of resizing, denoise, deinterlacing, inverse telecine, 12-bit 'Deep Colour', and general improved compatibility with MPEG2, AVCHD (H.264) and VC1 codec playback. Just like the rest of the 5000 series, now you can have Dolby TrueHD and DTS MasterHD over HDMI: a necessary addition for serious Home Theatre enthusiasts. Its biggest advantage is actually the second generation of Universal Video Decoder, (UVD2.2) that now includes support for HDMI 1.3a and bit-streaming for all HD audio. The HD 5450 brings 'DirectX 11 Gaming' to the table, but take that capacity with a pinch of salt given its meagre horsepower. Also, you can get an amazing entertainment experience with DirectX 11 and Windows 7 via HD5450. So much so, that we thought Intel's reign with its GMA HD could be exceptionally short lived. The HD 5450 Series is designed to give you stunning high definition entertainment from your PC, whether Blu-ray/HD DVD discs or other HD sources. This maybe ATI's most inexpensive offering but its advanced set of features, combined with a budget AMD system, could make it the perfect ingredient for a killer Home Theatre PC. Tax) for the 512MB versionĪt under £40 the Radeon HD 5450 is probably one of the cheapest graphics cards we've ever reviewed, so generating the hundreds of FPS in Crysis clearly isn't its forte.
DirectX 11 support Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio support.
RADEON HD 5450 INSTALL
Radeon HD 5450: Low Power, HTPC Heaven? Manufacturer: ATI Install this VisionTek Radeon 5450 graphics card in your PCIe computers X16 lane.
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