Sapphire HD5450 512MB PCI-E DDR3, Lite retail

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.

DirectCompute presents even more opportunities for you to take advantage of your ATI Radeon^TM HD 5400 Series GPU for tasks other than just rendering

* DirectCompute, helps improve PC performance by taking on some or all of a DirectX 11-enabled application's processing load, freeing up the computer's mainprocessor to take on additional tasks.
* DirectX 11-enabled applications are designed for fast performance on your PC running Windows 7. In addition, programs designed for Windows 7 can convert a digital media file to a different size or format can perform a faster conversion (i.e. transcode) under Windows 7 than under previous versions of WIndows.
* Windows® 7 with built-in drag and drop transcoding is a great example how ATI Radeon^TM HD 5400 Series GPUs provide an exceptional experience for the upcoming operating system.

Get unrivalled visual quality and intense gaming performance and for today and tomorrow with support for Microsoft® DirectX® 11

* ATI Radeon^TM HD 5400 Series graphics accelerators and software drivers are the first to offer full support for Microsoft DirectX® 11.
* Get striking 3D visual effects and dynamic interactivity with DirectX® 11 support, including features like HDR Texture Compression, DirectCompute and Tessellation.
* DirectX® 11 brings new levels of visual realism to gaming on the PC and you'll get top-notch performance for these titles with ATI Radeon^TM HD 5600 Series GPUs.

Sapphire HD 5450 System Requirements

* PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
* 400 Watt or greater power supply recommended
* Certified power supplies are recommended.
* Minimum 1GB of system memory
* Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
* DVD playback requires DVD drive
* Blu-ray^TM playback requires Blu-ray drive
* For best cooling performance, a chassis installed with at least one 120mm or 90mm fan is required.

Features

* Microsoft DirectX 11 Support
* ATI Stream technology**
* 40nm Process Technology
* PCI Express® 2.1 support
* Microsoft Windows 7® Support
* Enhanced Anisotropic Filtering
* Accelerated Video Transcoding**
* Display Flexibility
* HDMI 1.3
* Dolby® TrueHD and DTSHD Master AudioTM Support
* ATI PowerPlay ^TM Technology***
* ATI Avivo^TM Technology Enhanced Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2)***
* Supports OpenGL 3.2 ****
* ATI CrossFireX^TM multi-GPU technology*****

**Requires application support for ATI Stream technology.
***ATI PowerPlay^TM, ATI Avivo^TM and ATI Stream are technology platforms that include a broad set of capabilities offered by certain ATI Radeon^TM 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<=1920x1200. All HD content or desktop sizes greater than 1920x1200 will go through bilinear scale.
**** OpenCL compliant driver and SDK release scheduled for later in 2010

Specification

* SKU Number: 11166-01/11166-08(Hyper Memory Support)
* Radeon HD 5450
* 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