AMD to Launch HD 5450, 5570 Next Month
PrintWhile all the talk today is on Nvidia's Fermi architecture and the company's upcoming GF100 GPU, there's still the entry-level and lower mid-range market that needs catering to, and AMD plans to do that by releasing a pair of low-end videocards in February.
First up is the HD 5450, which AMD will look to replace last-gen's ATI HD 4650, 4550, and 4350 videocards. Official specs haven't yet been announced, but this one is said to be using GDDR3 memory and, like all current-gen ATI cards, will boast full DirectX 11 support.
Sitting slightly higher on the performance chain will be the HD 5570, a part that will poke its head out of the entry-level and inch into the mid-range market. Once again, no specs have been released, but according to some early reports, the 5570 will likely sport 1GB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1.8GHz on a 128-bit bus, while the GPU will run at 650MHz.
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JohnP
January 18, 2010 at 5:12pm
These low cost cards from ATI will pretty much set the bar for a good HTPC. Why bother with a underpowered nettop when a affordable Foxconn card, AMD CPU and an all around winner of a great graphics card that can do 5.1 surround and good HD picture all through the HDMI cable. I am using the Radeon err something (last gen $150 card! WTF, I have no idea) and love it to pieces.
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