ATI Radeon HD 5450 review
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Verdict
No good for gaming but it can handle Blu-ray, and it's cheap and small enough for any media PC
Review Date: 4 Feb 2010
Reviewed By: Mike Jennings
Price when reviewed: £35 (£41 inc VAT)
Overall Rating
Features & Design
Value for Money
Performance
| Details | |
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| Part Code | Radeon HD 5450 |
| Review Date | 4 Feb 2010 |
| Price ex VAT | £35 |
| Price inc VAT | £41 |
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| Core Specifications | |
|---|---|
| Graphics card interface | PCI Express |
| Cooling type | Passive |
| Graphics chipset | ATI Radeon HD 5450 |
| Core GPU frequency | 650MHz |
| RAM capacity | 512MB |
| Memory type | GDDR3 |
| Standards and compatibility | |
|---|---|
| DirectX version support | 11.0 |
| Shader model support | 5.0 |
| Connectors | |
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| DVI-I outputs | 1 |
| DVI-D outputs | 0 |
| VGA (D-SUB) outputs | 0 |
| S-Video outputs | 0 |
| HDMI outputs | 1 |
| 7-pin TV outputs | 0 |
| Graphics card power connectors | None |
| Benchmarks | |
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| 3D performance (crysis) low settings | 57fps |
| 3D performance (crysis), medium settings | 17fps |
| 3D performance (crysis) high settings | 7fps |
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User comments
Have you got the specs right? VGA or not?!
'...it’s also kitted out with DVI-I, D-SUB and DisplayPort connections, seemingly at the expense of HDMI' - this seems a bit confusing - there is an HDMI connection. Similarly the photo shows there's a VGA connection, but the specs claim there isn't.
By cswd1 on 19 Feb 2010 
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