ATI Radeon HD 5450: Eyefinity And HTPCs For Everyone?
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Anti-Aliasing And Anisotropic Filtering
We use Left 4 Dead to zero in on anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering performance. Unfortunately for the new Radeon HD 5450, this title does not best represent its strengths. Nevertheless, the card does provide playable performance at 1680x1050, even with 4x MSAA and 8x AF enabled. As the image quality-enhancing features are turned on, we see the new card perform similarly to the Radeon HD 4550.
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popaholic For the all the idiots out there, yes it can run Crysis, slightly.Reply
Whats the point of releasing a new graphics card thats worse than older cards? It runs Dx11 but there's no way it could even run a supported game.
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The links to the article pages are either missing or directed wrongly. For example, the "Power and Temperature Benchmarks", "Conclusion" pages are missing or directed wrongly.Reply
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cangelini serokichimThe links to the article pages are either missing or directed wrongly. For example, the "Power and Temperature Benchmarks", "Conclusion" pages are missing or directed wrongly.Reply
Try refreshing the page. Should be working correctly now! -
acasel a crossfire config with this video card + overclock will make this article much better in a gamers point of view...Reply -
cleeve acasela crossfire config with this video card + overclock will make this article much better in a gamers point of view...Reply
Not really, look at the specs. In CrossFire these cards would cost $100 for a total 160 shader cores. They still wouldn't hold a candle to a single $100 5670 when gaming, which has 400 shader cores all by itself.
CrossFiring the 5450 would be a total waste. -
masterjaw Passively-cooled 5450 in crossfire = failReply
How do you expect it to handle the increase in temps? Even if you got some good airflow inside the case, that won't be sufficient. -
skora How selfish you all are thinking THG only does gaming cards!!!! When ATI cuts the hardware (shaders/ROPs) to the bone, its not about gaming. Its for the HTPC and multi-monitor office crowd and thats it. It's a niche card and looks to do that admirably.Reply -
shubham1401 Lol...Reply
They needed a i7 and 1200W PSU to test this card... :)
Useless...Either get a good card or stick with integrated.