Product: Sapphire ATI Radeon 5450 HD 512MB
Reviewer: Jason Fetzko
Date: 02/4/2010
Price: $59.99
Provided By: Sapphire
Company URL: http://www.sapphiretech.com

About SapphireTech:

Pioneers in a new era of how data is displayed and games are played, Sapphire
shepherds the performance oriented with ground-breaking solutions to an
environment that remains in a constant state of flux and ultimate evolution. For
over ten years Sapphire has held true to its unwavering commitment, the
commitment to deliver the most feature rich and soundly engineered products.
Because of Sapphire’s firm position on achieving excellence with each product
that leaves our ISO9001 and ISO14001 certified factories, you can rest assured
that your customers will recognize YOUR commitment to selling only the highest
of quality components.

About the Sapphire ATI Radeon 5450 HD:

The SAPPHIRE HD 5450 graphic cards offer the most features and functionality in
their class with complete DirectX 11 support and the world’s most advanced
graphics, display features and technologies *1.

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.*2
Also, you can get an amazing entertainment experience with DirectX 11 and
Windows® 7 *3 via HD5450.

Microsoft DirectX 11 Support
ATI Stream technology**40nm Process Technology
PCI Express® 2.1 support
Microsoft Windows 7® Support
Enhanced Anisotropic FilteringAccelerated Video Transcoding**
HDMI 1.3
Dolby® TrueHD and DTSHD Master AudioTM Support
ATI PowerPlay ™ Technology***
ATI Avivo™ Technology Enhanced Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2)***
Supports OpenGL 3.2 ****
ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology
I/O Output: DL-DVI-I,HDMI,VGA
Core clock: 650MHz
Memory Clock: 1600MHz Effective
512MB / 64-bit DDR3 memory interface
PCI-E x16 (PCI-E 2.1) interface
Single slot passive heatsink
Software CrossFire
Board Dimension: 168mm(W) x 72.87mm(H) x 25(D)mm

**Requires application support for ATI Stream technology.

***ATI PowerPlay™, ATI Avivo™ and ATI Stream are technology platforms that
include a broad set of capabilities offered by certain ATI Radeon™ HD GPUs. Not
all products have all features and full enablement of some capabilities and may
require complementary products.

The ATI Radeon HD 5450 Gpus can support bicubic upscale for SD content when
desktop resolution<=1920×1200. All HD content or desktop sizes greater than
1920×1200 will go through bilinear scale.

**** OpenCL compliant driver and SDK release scheduled for later in 2010

Now let’s take a look at some pictures.