Since cathartic the first Radeon HD 5000 serial graphics card some foursome months ago, AMD has continuing its Assault on Nvidia with an army of new models. Following the Radeon HD 5870 came the 5850, 5770, 5750, 5970 and most recently the 5670, while today yet some other new product is set to earn its first appearance.

The new Radeon HD 5450, code-named Cedar Pro, will be the most affordable graphics placard belonging to the HD 5000 series. This is also the first on AMD's latest wave of graphics products to do away with GDDR5 memory, replacing it with older GDDR3. Of course, the Radeon HD 5450 is not designed exclusively for 3D play and sure as shooting versions will support advanced features such equally Eyefinity.

The Radeon HD 5450 is stepping in to replace the Radeon HD 4350 art circuit board which currently retails for as little as $35 - $40 (512MB) and $45 - $50 (1GB). AMD expects to ask between $50 - 60 for the new HD 5450, but we believe those prices should finalize downwards a little closer to the levels of the older HD 4350 when old inventory is depleted.

To give you some background signal information on this budget-minded price point, with the Radeon HD 4350 you basically get what you invite out, meaningful this product carries a telephone number of weaknesses. First is that the GPU is small-scale to a 64-morsel ample memory omnibus, combined with low frequency DDR2 memory and you get a theoretical memory bandwidth of just 8GB/s. To give you can idea of how little bandwidth that is, back in 2001 the Radeon 7500 had 7.4GB/s of bandwidth at its disposal, while the Radeon 9700 Pro which followed in 2002 using the AGP bus achieved a computer memory bandwidth of 19.8GB/s victimization original DDR memory. Therefore IT's hard to get agitated when we tell you that the refreshing Radeon HD 5450 has a memory bandwidth of just 12.8GB/s.

Opposing the 16 month old Radeon HD 4350 is the GeForce 9400 GT and GeForce 210 graphics cards, the last mentioned almost being a rebadged 9400 GT just manufactured using a 40nm design process.

What is important to note is that the GeForce 210 utilizes a 64-bit memory passenger vehicl crosswise all models and supports either DDR2 or DDR3 memory. The faster DDR3 cards have the exact memory bandwidth as the new Radeon HD 5450, which should arrive at for an interesting head to head comparison. But before we take up comparing performance rent out's select a closer look at ATI's latest budget GPU offering.