Today, February 4th 2010, AMD executes the penultimate step of their sweet spot strategy with the launch of the AMD ATI Radeon HD 5450. Aggressive pricing at $49 - $59USD, the HD 5450 offers DirectX 11 and Eyefinity to the masses for productivity, performance for popular gaming titles, and a powerful HTPC card. Join us as we examine the Cedar core architecture and its implementation in the entry level HD 5000 series!

AMD ATi Radeon HD 5450

The AMD ATI Radeon HD 5450 is specified as follows:

• $49 - $59 SEP

• 650MHz 40nm Cedar core

• 292M transistors

• 1 SIMD / 80 Stream Processors

• 8 TUs / 4 ROPs

• 512MB - 1GB of DDR2/DDR3 @ up to 1.8Gbps

• 7W idle / 19W load

• 104 GFLOPS Compute Performance