I used to play Skyrim on gt610 2 gb edition and when it ran at 30 fps it felt sooo smooth. Then I got a 1050ti oc edition and saw 60 fps, I was simply blown away 😂.
@@mikeycrackson Man i feel that, i used to run most games at 20-40 fps on most games due to a cpu bottleneck. Then i got a beefier pc along with a 144hz monitor and let me tell you. I got motion sick
I had that GPU for so long I was basically living in 15-20fps lmao, I actually later "upgraded" to an Intel skylake igpu because it was actually faster
Bro.. I feel that so much. Used to play LE in my old intel HD 4000 for 8 years. And then bought a Lenovo Legion 5, I got motion sickness from the 60 fps.
My first ever gpu…. Man, I don’t miss playing at 800x600 with low settings at all. Also, your older review of this card was the first video of yours I ever watched. Thank you for giving this card another review on how lmfao bad it is for gaming.
I am the prowd owner of 2 HD 5450's. One of them is sitting in an htpc that we use once or twice in a month and the other one I use it for testing motherboards and PC equipment in general it is very convenient that it doesn't need external power and it has video outputs that most of the older monitors have.
I have a silent version of the card, and it was intended for a home theater PC back in 2010. These days, it is in a 775 motherboard running a Core 2 duo CPU running windows 10 on an SSD. Basically, a silent web browser home office PC.
Old tech need never die as long as some kind of use could be made of it...i resent MS making all my old computers absolete on windows in 2025....will have to game on linux then i guess
There was another sneaky use for these cards, crossfire with the a8/a10 series apus. I did this back in the day and the performance was mediocre, but playable.
@@salmon320 7660 mobile has old arhitecture like hd5000 cards, destktop cards from hd7770 have new. If I remember r5 250m and stronger have new arhitecture (dx12 support 480 new shaders etc)
@@nikolakarovic5964 You talked about A8-A10 processors. HD5450 is an entry level GPU, you should put other entry level APUs as reference and even as is, brute force from FM2 APUs still surprising.
Still impressive to see such a low end card even running some of these titles. I still remember when it was new and a decent card for older dx9 titles on windows XP. Might still hold up for classic gaming and such.
What would be the target XP games for this card? Games like Half-Life 2 or WoW? I think it will struggle with the late XP games, which were still current when the card was released.
These are the old cards I usually see new on eBay for cheap lol... its actually funny when someone describes a PC as a gaming PC with one of these cards in it for sale. It is interesting buying them and playing around with these cards.
Ah, the HD 5450. I got the exact same model as yours for my parents' PC for use as a video decoding card (as you mentioned, it was originally intended for HTPCs), but before that, I tested this card in my own PC to see if it works. One of the games I tried was Minecraft, and it ran surprisingly well, at a very stable 30 FPS at 1080p. Granted, it was paired with a fairly modern CPU (Ryzen 3 2200G) but it was the best performance I've seen in Minecraft from an ultra budget GPU, certainly better than the absolute travesty that is the integrated G31 chipset graphics in my parents' PC.
Are you sure Minecraft was running on the HD 5450 and not the Integrated Vega 8 graphics? Because in that case the integrated graphics should be much, much faster(like several times faster, given the more efficient architecture, double the core clock speed, and several times the computational resources).
I was thinking of the 6450, which is 160 VLIW5 shaders. The 5450 is worse with only 80. That's close to 64 VLIW4 shaders, and the original GCN compute unit had roughly 50% better IPC than VLIW 4. Vega level revision should have even higher IPC(not a ton, but at least a little). So I would say the Vega 8(well, when overclocked to something like 1650 MHz) could be potentially 24 times as powerful(50%+ better due to IPC, 8x the compute units, and double or more the clock speed). I know Minecraft is fairly easy for Vega 8.
Would it be possible for you to test a radeon VII? I'd love to see you test it for 2022 and for the future. I guess it must be one of the more uncommon cards since i have only seen 1 in a 200km radius of where i live.
Well,the DDR2 version is more slower. It has less memory bandwitch,is like to compare GDDR3 with GDDR5 so the DDR2 version it may be unable to run games atleast 30 fps.
around a year ago I was still one of the people that would now say: "Hi that thing still runs better then my PC"... am I glad that I actually build a PC back then... even if I had to accept the fact that the 210€ 1060 6gb was the best I could get at the time... it is still running very well and actually made me a very happy Gamer. (well actually I started out with a 3200G build but even that was better then the HD 5450... by now I updated to a 3600 and said 1060)
I remember this card, had it on my old Laptop back in 2011. At the time I thought all the games at 15-30 fps were smooth as heck, I remember first playing GTA V and Black Ops 2 on there. Then I upgraded to a newer PC then was simply blown away at the FPS. Honestly still decent for fairly simple games. Especially strategy games, remember playing a lot of Victoria II on it as well.
I picked up two 6450 DDDR3 models for $8 usd each a coupe years back. Great to have on hand for testing for failed video cards, etc. and work great for basic systems that don't have onboard graphics (think file server, etc.).
I actually did have this card in my HTPC a decade ago. The passive cooling was great, and it supported LPCM 7.1 audio over HDMI, which was what I needed for my Onkyo A/V receiver.
Thanks to this GPU it can play all these amazing games: Dead space 1,2,3, Fear 1,2,3, Condemned, Amnesia the dark descent and machine for pigs, Penumbra 1, 2 , Tomb raider (2012), RE 4,5, 6 ,Dishonored,Devil may cry, GTA IV, Alice madness returns,Alien isolation,Alan wake,Half life 2 and episodes 1 and 2,Crysis 1 and 2,Bioshock trilogy, Max payne 1,2,3 , Life is strange, Mirors edge,Mortal kombat 9,Murdered soul suspect,outlast,Portal 1 ,2, Prey, Serious sam 2, 3, Soma, Spec ops: the line , Stalker shadow of chernobyl, , now i have a 1060 6gb and i love it but the 5450 has most of my gaming memories...
Last year I bought an big mystery GPU box and got 2 of those monsters. The HD 5450 might be bad for gaming, but when crossfire them, there get better. I played GTA V with 20fps before and then added the 2nd and got well up 30fps at 720p and low and at least it was also stable. But every other game witheout Crossfire will suffer as hell. btw both was the gddr3 cards with 1gb
I'd love to see you look at the HD 7850 4GB some day, mine's still thundering on. The 7850 is uniquely positioned in hardware architechture to be very widely supported and capable of modernisation (e.g. Amernime drivers) and has great support on Linux too. Feels like the best tech purchase I ever made, but at the time I was just sad I couldn't afford a 7950.
Damn i used this. bought that gpu in 2012 and changed to gt 710 in 2020. When i used gt 710 for the first time i feel like, wow this graphics card is so powerful! This can run games from 2013 in 720p. Now in april 2022 i bought gt 1030. Im super supriced to see 30fps in a lot of modern games. And 60fps in games what released around 2016 at medium settings. I remember my painful days after i saw this video. Played games at 480p lowest settings possible. My first gpu in my life. I hate its performance but really thankful to my redeon hd 5450. It was bad but really helped me to play some games. Sorry for my bad english.
Just picked one up. If you're into retro gaming, you can modify the drivers to output RGB at 15khz for crts and change the resolution all the way down to 240p. Running emulators using a Nvidia 3060 to render and the hd5450 to output. It's a sweet system and only cost me $18 for the card. 2D games never looked so good.
I wonder, if like with the steam deck, if you manually cap your refresh rate to 40hz if it could smooth out any stuttering (maybe more applicable to somewhat better cards lol) . Also I think there are some other variations with better memory configuration, unless that's what this one is
@@playerroku4412 in windows you can cap the refresh rate depending on drivers, so you could set to 1280x800 @40hz for example. For some games this helps with frame "smoothness", and the reason I mentioned steam deck was that it had a 30fps cap but was still displaying 60hz. Capping refresh rate rather than frame rate forces apps, when using something like vsync, to limit to 40fps. Look at the phawx channel for more info
My gawd... I remember telling people not to buy those things on Yahoo Answers. Used to tell them to the HD 5570 instead. The 6450 was only slightly better.... but the 6570 also blew it away. I can't remember prices specifically, but I do remember the 5570 didn't cost too much more than the 5450, and the 5570 was almost twice as fast. Thinking about that era.... one card that was really solid was the HD 6850. That card could handle anything, it wasn't hot, and it only cost $180 usd back then.
Ah yes the low profile 5450 was part of my first secondary pc build in 2014: An old Dell Optiplex with a Q6600, 4 gigs of ram and a 128gb ssd i got for 50€ + the 5450 and a fresh win 7 install. descent for older games < 2008. Planing a newer build with the new 6400
@unsubtract 6400 I would argue is less so of a joke, its a gt 1030 replacement for sff builds that doesnt break the bank, its essentially a 570 in performance, as it matches it in most games.
I remember I spent £340 on a refurbished Dell XPS system back in 2010 with 4gb ram , i3 550 and this GPU. I thought I was a absolute baller for about 20 minutes until I was wondering why games where running crappy. First of gaming experience lol but I remember a few days later I ended up buying 9800 GT and selling the 5450. Don't know how but I ended up with another 5450 years later. Used it for to test scrap pc's I threw together to check they worked before ordering a gpu
I have a few 6450s and 7570s lying around for retro gaming. They are great for slapping together a Windows XP retro gaming rig for when you want to play old games that does not play well with newer operating system or for when you eat to enjoy some EAX. The 5450 would do well too I’m sure. These old Radeon cards does resolution scaling really well, and AMDs Catalyst software is great for adding a little bit of eye candy to retro games.
iGPUs made these cards kind of obsolete, but if an old game is incompatible with modern hardware (it happens) these old, efficient low end cards still have a purpose.
This card got me by when I wasn’t the most well versed in gaming in computers. Played a lot of Fallout 3 and New Vegas and even DayZ Stand alone. For sure not a great card but compared to the on board graphics the system had it for sure helped the little Athlon 64 x2 sing lol
Considering what it is, it has held up pretty well. AMD cards age pretty well. We have 2 HD 5770 at home, one of which my mother is still using, the other is for testing. It still runs games like WoW or CSGO on 1080p. For a midrange card that's almost 13 years old that's pretty impressive
I really enjoyed the Far Cry Primal footage. I came to follow you during the pandemic and whereas I have invested your back catalog, I never bumped into it. I like this addition, especially on older hardware! I'm not a gamer who always plays cutting edge stuff, and I honestly missed that game even coming out - not my main genre (cRPGs or the like) - but it was really cool to see!
My cash converters £90 secondhand PC with an fx 6300 and HD 7770 seems to be a perfect budget combination, The only modern game I’ve played is valorant but I’m loving playing all these ps3/360 games I once had and seeing how much better it is with more resolution and graphics
Makes me feel a lot better about the 3080ti FTW3 Hydro Copper I was ableto snag a few days ago... Upgraded from a 750ti. Orgasmic I believe is the word there...
That Far Cry Primal experience reminds me of how I tried to play it on my old laptop. Ran, well, poorly, and at the end of it all, my computer crashed because it wasn't able to shut the game down properly
I have a video testing the 6350, which afaik is just a rebranded 5450. You definitely have to manage expectations, but it has the ability to run a decent amount of games. The 6350 actually does work via Crossfire as well hahah.
I was using integrated graphics with an Intel Core 2 Duo and 2GB RAM to play all my games. Those days were interesting to say the least. I remember trying to run Windows 10 on that when it came out lol.
My go to super budget GPU with no external power requirement is the Nvidia Quadro K620 2GB. Bought one for £20 off a certain auction site a few months ago and have been very pleasantly surprised by its performance. It cost a few more £ than the HD5450 but for 1000% (according to User Benchmark) better performance its probably worth it. GTA V 1080p Medium at acceptable framerates and Farming Sim 17 likewise.
I still have this graphics card and use it for gaming . I obviously cant play new games but there aresome old games that I can still play. I played and passed all skyrim on this graphics card and with mods, worked fine. most strategy games are also playable.
bought this in 2010 solely since it could output 8ch audio over its HDMI port. Had it for 9 years, never let it anywhere near a game more demanding than 2D point and click adventures! Just last month I sold it to some guy who needed to output screen for his server build heh
I'm quite sure that if you had gotten Cyberpunk to work it would have launched the entirety of the test rig into the stratosphere while completely engulfed in flames.
I think i got the same or similar model couple of years back , for my uncle I paided for it about 10€. It ran Warframe decently lol but I can tell you that HD7750 1GB was a great GPU !
I was about to buy one(the Hd 7750) but i got an gt 730 2 gb,the reason is that in my country the people likes to scam so i get a "new" graphic card,just to discover that actually is not so "new" because the enterprise(afox) reuse chips,altleast from what i heard.
This was my first gpu ever!!! I still have it displayed on my shelf haha. It was paired with a q6600 then upgraded to a q9450. Now I have a ryzen 9 5900x with an rx 6700 xt
I do own this card (the 512MB DDR2 version to be exact) and I absolutely love it for what it is because it is amazing when used for it's intended purpose. -it is dirt cheap so if it breaks - whatever -it is old and simple, I've had instances where with a relatively modern card I don't immediately get a display output (I did own a vegy 56, then a different vega 56 and now a 980ti) and I have to reboot one or two times or I have to remove the card and plug it back in. But with the HD5450? This thing has never even once failed to immediately give me a display output no matter which system I use it in. Sot it is great to get a basic display output (with hdmi even) out of a system without integrated graphics and is great for troubleshooting. I recently upgraded my PC but kept the 980ti for the new one so the HD5450 is currently responsible for keeping my prevoius computer usable. And it can't even run minecraft in a playable manner.
I still have two of them. One turned an old office machine (HP DC7900) into a Linux box, on which I play old games and well, play with Linux. The other is still in what was an XP based HTPC, but it hasn't, been used in a while. It does play old games too though, things like Civ 4... Come to think of it, I have an old 4350 too, which does a similar job.
Oh, yeah, had one in a prebuilt pc, dumped it into another and sold that pc, and in the pc I kept replaced it with a 1gb HD5870... what had cooling issues, than I got a 1gb Club3D HD5750 passive, but felt a bit weak after the 5870. Than found a 4GB XFX RX460 passive, for 60€... :D That was in summer 2020... Still have it and will keep it. :)
I can't believe you are making a video on my exact first bought GPU, back in 2014 this wasn't a beast by any means but I pared with a pentium 4 with HT and oooh man.... the games I completed with that system is still to this day awesome, dead space, telltale twd, even both xenoverses and the list goes oninoninon
I've got a couple of old HD 5670 cards knocking about. I bought them new for £40 each and they were surprisingly good for how little they cost. Weirdly one has 512MB VRAM with the other having 1GB and a DisplayPort connector rather than VGA
I have the MSI 1gb edition of this card, and as terrible as it is it serves a niche purpose for PC builders. I have it for testing motherboards and GPUs, since it'll boot and output video in just about any system. I recently used it to figure out why my new used 6700XT wasn't outputting any video since my CPU has no onboard graphics, I could just throw this in alongside the 6700 XT to find out I had a driver conflict.
My first GPU that I paired with an old core2duo hp tower. I could only run pre-2010 games smoothly with the 512mb version. I have a much better system now but I still have this card to remind me how far i've come.
Basically, what I would call a display adapter - OK to drive multiple displays, but that's about it. Modern Intel HD graphics or Ryzen APU iGPUs would perform better.
At this point for low profile users, 1650 or even the new 6400 are there for the taking, even enthusiasts can have the rtx A2000... options there are, I imagine Intel will come also with one of this that is actually potable! Options are nice, keep'em coming
Honestly, far cry primal kinda looks awesome. Loved the third one, the fourth never appealed to me and I was away at a military school, liked 5 and 6 but they felt like consecutive steps away from what i liked of far cry 3. Perhaps it's worth a grab?
when my main rig's psu blew up I had to stick for a week to a 2005 HP sff which had a 3450HD videocard in it, this 5450 wouldve been a massive improvement over it lol
I had the 4550 which has the same number of stream processors back in 2009 and for gaming it was pretty good (put hundreds of hours on L4D through that card). Back in 2009 most people were not gaming at full HD so lower end cards were pretty capable (especially playing anything made on the source engine).
that was the first card i ever got! has a kid that with some kind of a single core intel cpu moved allot up as i run a ryzen 5950x with a 3090 this days and work as a 3d artist. but ill always remember it as my first! xD
I used a 4350 back in the day. Mostly because I had decided to focus on console gaming but it didn’t take too long before I got a 5670 which was a very good card for the low price.
I used a pc with this card for 2 months (my gpu died, and didn't had any other for my home pc), and actually is pretty usable for day-to-day use, but absolutely not gaming. But for gaming with pretty old games it's a good choice.
I was a little bit spoiled with my first card at the time, it was a Radeon r7770 with 1gb of gddr5 VRAM, I also had an AMD phenom II X4 paired with 4gb of DDR3 RAM
I also have one (or I'm not sure if it's a 5450 or a mobility radeon 5430?) and I use it to test mainboard without integrated graphics, what really comes in handy especially for older cheap 4:3 monitors is the vga port, sometimes I wish newer cards also had one, but I also understand why they don't for this purpose though it's perfectly fine
So.... about that DDR2 model ;) How much worse would that be? Speaking of the HD 5450. It is possible to overclock this to almost 800 MHz, thus being able to squeeze out some extra frames. The memory is also very overclockable
I used to play Skyrim on gt610 2 gb edition and when it ran at 30 fps it felt sooo smooth. Then I got a 1050ti oc edition and saw 60 fps, I was simply blown away 😂.
@@mikeycrackson suffering from success lol.
@@mikeycrackson Man i feel that, i used to run most games at 20-40 fps on most games due to a cpu bottleneck. Then i got a beefier pc along with a 144hz monitor and let me tell you. I got motion sick
I remember gaming on intel integrated graphics when I was younger. Good times playing gta San Andreas on a old HP laptop
I had that GPU for so long I was basically living in 15-20fps lmao, I actually later "upgraded" to an Intel skylake igpu because it was actually faster
Bro.. I feel that so much. Used to play LE in my old intel HD 4000 for 8 years. And then bought a Lenovo Legion 5, I got motion sickness from the 60 fps.
My first ever gpu…. Man, I don’t miss playing at 800x600 with low settings at all.
Also, your older review of this card was the first video of yours I ever watched. Thank you for giving this card another review on how lmfao bad it is for gaming.
You can update the drivers you know.
@@AuVeI the drivers for this card stopped update years ago lol
@@AuVeI Hahahhahaa
GTA V with 800x600 💀
I am the prowd owner of 2 HD 5450's.
One of them is sitting in an htpc that we use once or twice in a month and the other one I use it for testing motherboards and PC equipment in general it is very convenient that it doesn't need external power and it has video outputs that most of the older monitors have.
I know it's an esports title but Overwatch surprised me on the little HD 5450! Nearly 60 FPS and definitely playable!
Yeah I wasn’t expecting that
2gb version ? Or 1?
@@serebbi It has 1gb vram, think there's a 512MB version maybe.
@@Kaelar2077 Ye i know, i have a 2gb aswell but its my backup-backup card.
@@serebbi I don't know if there is a 2gb, I have the 1gb in my pc rn while I wait for my RX 5700 XT to arrive so I can swap them out lol
I have a silent version of the card, and it was intended for a home theater PC back in 2010. These days, it is in a 775 motherboard running a Core 2 duo CPU running windows 10 on an SSD. Basically, a silent web browser home office PC.
Old tech need never die as long as some kind of use could be made of it...i resent MS making all my old computers absolete on windows in 2025....will have to game on linux then i guess
There was another sneaky use for these cards, crossfire with the a8/a10 series apus. I did this back in the day and the performance was mediocre, but playable.
FM2 APUs aged better. Radeon 7660D is more close to GT730 than the HD5450.
@@chillinfartdotcc hd7660 has 480 shaders it's on hd 5670 level, it's 6x more than 5450. But low end Apus had 80-160 shaders .
@@nikolakarovic5964 the core count sometimes doesnt matter, thats because of the arc.
@@salmon320 7660 mobile has old arhitecture like hd5000 cards, destktop cards from hd7770 have new. If I remember r5 250m and stronger have new arhitecture (dx12 support 480 new shaders etc)
@@nikolakarovic5964 You talked about A8-A10 processors. HD5450 is an entry level GPU, you should put other entry level APUs as reference and even as is, brute force from FM2 APUs still surprising.
Still impressive to see such a low end card even running some of these titles. I still remember when it was new and a decent card for older dx9 titles on windows XP. Might still hold up for classic gaming and such.
There is nothing impressive about 15fps at 720p. You'll go blind trying to play a game at 720p with 50% resolution scale.
What would be the target XP games for this card? Games like Half-Life 2 or WoW? I think it will struggle with the late XP games, which were still current when the card was released.
got to love this guy keep up the good work
These are the old cards I usually see new on eBay for cheap lol... its actually funny when someone describes a PC as a gaming PC with one of these cards in it for sale. It is interesting buying them and playing around with these cards.
True,if i was from another country i would buy some old gpu´s like the gtx 660 or amd equivalent.
You're funny. There's always a few phrases that make me chuckle.
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2:35 id like the mention the skill involved in that impressive parallel park. truly a gamer you are 👏
*CRUNCH, CRUNCH*
*Gets out of car*
"Flawless Victory."
please find out we need to know how fast the ddr2 hp is...
I'm guessing it will be face meltingly fast, but I too need that official confirmation to be sure.
Ah, the HD 5450. I got the exact same model as yours for my parents' PC for use as a video decoding card (as you mentioned, it was originally intended for HTPCs), but before that, I tested this card in my own PC to see if it works. One of the games I tried was Minecraft, and it ran surprisingly well, at a very stable 30 FPS at 1080p. Granted, it was paired with a fairly modern CPU (Ryzen 3 2200G) but it was the best performance I've seen in Minecraft from an ultra budget GPU, certainly better than the absolute travesty that is the integrated G31 chipset graphics in my parents' PC.
Are you sure Minecraft was running on the HD 5450 and not the Integrated Vega 8 graphics? Because in that case the integrated graphics should be much, much faster(like several times faster, given the more efficient architecture, double the core clock speed, and several times the computational resources).
I was thinking of the 6450, which is 160 VLIW5 shaders. The 5450 is worse with only 80. That's close to 64 VLIW4 shaders, and the original GCN compute unit had roughly 50% better IPC than VLIW 4. Vega level revision should have even higher IPC(not a ton, but at least a little). So I would say the Vega 8(well, when overclocked to something like 1650 MHz) could be potentially 24 times as powerful(50%+ better due to IPC, 8x the compute units, and double or more the clock speed). I know Minecraft is fairly easy for Vega 8.
Minecraft can be run on virtually anything. Even GT210 has no big problems with it. It's HEAVILY CPU bound than anything
Would it be possible for you to test a radeon VII? I'd love to see you test it for 2022 and for the future. I guess it must be one of the more uncommon cards since i have only seen 1 in a 200km radius of where i live.
Hey can you please find out how much of a difference there is between this card and the DDR2 version ? 😉
Well,the DDR2 version is more slower. It has less memory bandwitch,is like to compare GDDR3 with GDDR5 so the DDR2 version it may be unable to run games atleast 30 fps.
@@maximooscarmolina3617 i know mate i was just messing with him because he said "pls don't ask me to test it"
around a year ago I was still one of the people that would now say: "Hi that thing still runs better then my PC"... am I glad that I actually build a PC back then... even if I had to accept the fact that the 210€ 1060 6gb was the best I could get at the time... it is still running very well and actually made me a very happy Gamer. (well actually I started out with a 3200G build but even that was better then the HD 5450... by now I updated to a 3600 and said 1060)
I remember this card, had it on my old Laptop back in 2011. At the time I thought all the games at 15-30 fps were smooth as heck, I remember first playing GTA V and Black Ops 2 on there. Then I upgraded to a newer PC then was simply blown away at the FPS. Honestly still decent for fairly simple games. Especially strategy games, remember playing a lot of Victoria II on it as well.
I picked up two 6450 DDDR3 models for $8 usd each a coupe years back. Great to have on hand for testing for failed video cards, etc. and work great for basic systems that don't have onboard graphics (think file server, etc.).
I actually did have this card in my HTPC a decade ago. The passive cooling was great, and it supported LPCM 7.1 audio over HDMI, which was what I needed for my Onkyo A/V receiver.
Thanks to this GPU it can play all these amazing games: Dead space 1,2,3, Fear 1,2,3, Condemned, Amnesia the dark descent and machine for pigs, Penumbra 1, 2 , Tomb raider (2012), RE 4,5, 6 ,Dishonored,Devil may cry, GTA IV, Alice madness returns,Alien isolation,Alan wake,Half life 2 and episodes 1 and 2,Crysis 1 and 2,Bioshock trilogy, Max payne 1,2,3 , Life is strange, Mirors edge,Mortal kombat 9,Murdered soul suspect,outlast,Portal 1 ,2, Prey, Serious sam 2, 3, Soma, Spec ops: the line , Stalker shadow of chernobyl, , now i have a 1060 6gb and i love it but the 5450 has most of my gaming memories...
You may never get another card with such a stunning list of games played on it.
I still use to this day its slower little brother, the 5470. It has given me almost a decade of entertainment
Last year I bought an big mystery GPU box and got 2 of those monsters. The HD 5450 might be bad for gaming, but when crossfire them, there get better. I played GTA V with 20fps before and then added the 2nd and got well up 30fps at 720p and low and at least it was also stable. But every other game witheout Crossfire will suffer as hell. btw both was the gddr3 cards with 1gb
I'd love to see you look at the HD 7850 4GB some day, mine's still thundering on. The 7850 is uniquely positioned in hardware architechture to be very widely supported and capable of modernisation (e.g. Amernime drivers) and has great support on Linux too. Feels like the best tech purchase I ever made, but at the time I was just sad I couldn't afford a 7950.
Ahh, the gt210's arch-rival! If you still have one of those, you could make a legendary battle video!
Dude the gt210 got a 25% less performance than hd5450. Maybe a hd3450 with same dx10 comp will match with gt210
Damn i used this. bought that gpu in 2012 and changed to gt 710 in 2020. When i used gt 710 for the first time i feel like, wow this graphics card is so powerful! This can run games from 2013 in 720p. Now in april 2022 i bought gt 1030. Im super supriced to see 30fps in a lot of modern games. And 60fps in games what released around 2016 at medium settings. I remember my painful days after i saw this video. Played games at 480p lowest settings possible. My first gpu in my life. I hate its performance but really thankful to my redeon hd 5450. It was bad but really helped me to play some games. Sorry for my bad english.
Your English is better than Google Translate, no need to apologise.
Just picked one up. If you're into retro gaming, you can modify the drivers to output RGB at 15khz for crts and change the resolution all the way down to 240p. Running emulators using a Nvidia 3060 to render and the hd5450 to output. It's a sweet system and only cost me $18 for the card. 2D games never looked so good.
I wonder, if like with the steam deck, if you manually cap your refresh rate to 40hz if it could smooth out any stuttering (maybe more applicable to somewhat better cards lol) . Also I think there are some other variations with better memory configuration, unless that's what this one is
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@@playerroku4412 in windows you can cap the refresh rate depending on drivers, so you could set to 1280x800 @40hz for example. For some games this helps with frame "smoothness", and the reason I mentioned steam deck was that it had a 30fps cap but was still displaying 60hz. Capping refresh rate rather than frame rate forces apps, when using something like vsync, to limit to 40fps. Look at the phawx channel for more info
My gawd... I remember telling people not to buy those things on Yahoo Answers. Used to tell them to the HD 5570 instead.
The 6450 was only slightly better.... but the 6570 also blew it away.
I can't remember prices specifically, but I do remember the 5570 didn't cost too much more than the 5450, and the 5570 was almost twice as fast.
Thinking about that era.... one card that was really solid was the HD 6850. That card could handle anything, it wasn't hot, and it only cost $180 usd back then.
Would be interesting to see how these lower end cards run with some overclocking to them, to squeeze as much as possible
You can only go up to like 880 and 550 before your GPU starts breaking
Ah yes the low profile 5450 was part of my first secondary pc build in 2014: An old Dell Optiplex with a Q6600, 4 gigs of ram and a 128gb ssd i got for 50€ + the 5450 and a fresh win 7 install. descent for older games < 2008. Planing a newer build with the new 6400
6400 is almost identical performance to the 570, jsyn
@Green Mamba Games do you know the cost of a 1650 right now vs a 6400xt? its an extra 80 dollars for a new 1650 rn, used is in a similar state.
Same! The card was pretty shit tbh, but it got me through the time.
@unsubtract 6400 I would argue is less so of a joke, its a gt 1030 replacement for sff builds that doesnt break the bank, its essentially a 570 in performance, as it matches it in most games.
I remember I spent £340 on a refurbished Dell XPS system back in 2010 with 4gb ram , i3 550 and this GPU. I thought I was a absolute baller for about 20 minutes until I was wondering why games where running crappy. First of gaming experience lol but I remember a few days later I ended up buying 9800 GT and selling the 5450.
Don't know how but I ended up with another 5450 years later. Used it for to test scrap pc's I threw together to check they worked before ordering a gpu
AMD 6400 review soon? Love your work dude
Yeah very soon :)
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I have a few 6450s and 7570s lying around for retro gaming. They are great for slapping together a Windows XP retro gaming rig for when you want to play old games that does not play well with newer operating system or for when you eat to enjoy some EAX. The 5450 would do well too I’m sure. These old Radeon cards does resolution scaling really well, and AMDs Catalyst software is great for adding a little bit of eye candy to retro games.
The AMD version of the legendary GT 710
Well,if you take te old gt 710 this amd is more powerfull but still being weaker than the kepler one.
iGPUs made these cards kind of obsolete, but if an old game is incompatible with modern hardware (it happens) these old, efficient low end cards still have a purpose.
This card got me by when I wasn’t the most well versed in gaming in computers. Played a lot of Fallout 3 and New Vegas and even DayZ Stand alone. For sure not a great card but compared to the on board graphics the system had it for sure helped the little Athlon 64 x2 sing lol
I genuinely love your videos. Thanks for the channel.
Considering what it is, it has held up pretty well.
AMD cards age pretty well. We have 2 HD 5770 at home, one of which my mother is still using, the other is for testing. It still runs games like WoW or CSGO on 1080p. For a midrange card that's almost 13 years old that's pretty impressive
I had a Radeon 4650 it ran pretty well for 2011 with a core 2 duo
Idk if anyone said this but when I grow up I seriously wanna do what you do as a hobby. Just collect old and interesting tech and benchmark them.
I really enjoyed the Far Cry Primal footage. I came to follow you during the pandemic and whereas I have invested your back catalog, I never bumped into it. I like this addition, especially on older hardware! I'm not a gamer who always plays cutting edge stuff, and I honestly missed that game even coming out - not my main genre (cRPGs or the like) - but it was really cool to see!
My cash converters £90 secondhand PC with an fx 6300 and HD 7770 seems to be a perfect budget combination, The only modern game I’ve played is valorant but I’m loving playing all these ps3/360 games I once had and seeing how much better it is with more resolution and graphics
Makes me feel a lot better about the 3080ti FTW3 Hydro Copper I was ableto snag a few days ago... Upgraded from a 750ti.
Orgasmic I believe is the word there...
That Far Cry Primal experience reminds me of how I tried to play it on my old laptop. Ran, well, poorly, and at the end of it all, my computer crashed because it wasn't able to shut the game down properly
I have a video testing the 6350, which afaik is just a rebranded 5450. You definitely have to manage expectations, but it has the ability to run a decent amount of games.
The 6350 actually does work via Crossfire as well hahah.
My first ever gpu back in like 2010-2011, Good memories 😭.
I was using integrated graphics with an Intel Core 2 Duo and 2GB RAM to play all my games. Those days were interesting to say the least. I remember trying to run Windows 10 on that when it came out lol.
2:05 -2:14 OHHHHHHHHHHHHH HOOOOO SAVAGE!!!☠🔥🤣
My go to super budget GPU with no external power requirement is the Nvidia Quadro K620 2GB. Bought one for £20 off a certain auction site a few months ago and have been very pleasantly surprised by its performance. It cost a few more £ than the HD5450 but for 1000% (according to User Benchmark) better performance its probably worth it. GTA V 1080p Medium at acceptable framerates and Farming Sim 17 likewise.
I still have this graphics card and use it for gaming . I obviously cant play new games but there aresome old games that I can still play. I played and passed all skyrim on this graphics card and with mods, worked fine. most strategy games are also playable.
I had a 5670 (great little card) with my 2600k, that was a card I used for 6 years until I got a gtx1080. Now that was an upgrade!
I LOVE far cry primal and I love the fact that you spread the word about it
Had one of these for a few years :
Pentium E2180
HD 5450 512MB
2GB RAM
250GB
This was about 2010/11 , good times !
bought this in 2010 solely since it could output 8ch audio over its HDMI port.
Had it for 9 years, never let it anywhere near a game more demanding than 2D point and click adventures!
Just last month I sold it to some guy who needed to output screen for his server build heh
I once tested an HD 5460.... Very dark time for ATI. 9800 GTX absolutely wipes the floor with this one
I used a Radeon 545v for a decade (still use the laptop as an HTPC) and my resolution of choice for smoothish gaming was almost always 1024x600.
I'm quite sure that if you had gotten Cyberpunk to work it would have launched the entirety of the test rig into the stratosphere while completely engulfed in flames.
I have an HD 5450 and an HD 5770. What's really odd is that the HD 5770 doesn't have a UEFI vBIOS while the 5450 does.
I think i got the same or similar model couple of years back , for my uncle I paided for it about 10€. It ran Warframe decently lol but I can tell you that HD7750 1GB was a great GPU !
I was about to buy one(the Hd 7750) but i got an gt 730 2 gb,the reason is that in my country the people likes to scam so i get a "new" graphic card,just to discover that actually is not so "new" because the enterprise(afox) reuse chips,altleast from what i heard.
Id like to see how the HD4850 performs today as well, any chance you still have it laying around?
This was my first gpu ever!!! I still have it displayed on my shelf haha. It was paired with a q6600 then upgraded to a q9450. Now I have a ryzen 9 5900x with an rx 6700 xt
“Pre historic experience “🤣
Man, I just love your commentary 👍🏼
the HD5450 is really interesting, because it supports fairly modern OpenGL and Vulkan API versions, meaning it's great for Linux/*BSD-based builds
I do own this card (the 512MB DDR2 version to be exact) and I absolutely love it for what it is because it is amazing when used for it's intended purpose.
-it is dirt cheap so if it breaks - whatever
-it is old and simple, I've had instances where with a relatively modern card I don't immediately get a display output (I did own a vegy 56, then a different vega 56 and now a 980ti) and I have to reboot one or two times or I have to remove the card and plug it back in. But with the HD5450? This thing has never even once failed to immediately give me a display output no matter which system I use it in.
Sot it is great to get a basic display output (with hdmi even) out of a system without integrated graphics and is great for troubleshooting.
I recently upgraded my PC but kept the 980ti for the new one so the HD5450 is currently responsible for keeping my prevoius computer usable.
And it can't even run minecraft in a playable manner.
I still have two of them. One turned an old office machine (HP DC7900) into a Linux box, on which I play old games and well, play with Linux. The other is still in what was an XP based HTPC, but it hasn't, been used in a while. It does play old games too though, things like Civ 4... Come to think of it, I have an old 4350 too, which does a similar job.
Oh, yeah, had one in a prebuilt pc, dumped it into another and sold that pc, and in the pc I kept replaced it with a 1gb HD5870... what had cooling issues, than I got a 1gb Club3D HD5750 passive, but felt a bit weak after the 5870.
Than found a 4GB XFX RX460 passive, for 60€... :D That was in summer 2020... Still have it and will keep it. :)
I can't believe you are making a video on my exact first bought GPU, back in 2014 this wasn't a beast by any means but I pared with a pentium 4 with HT and oooh man.... the games I completed with that system is still to this day awesome, dead space, telltale twd, even both xenoverses and the list goes oninoninon
I've got a couple of old HD 5670 cards knocking about. I bought them new for £40 each and they were surprisingly good for how little they cost. Weirdly one has 512MB VRAM with the other having 1GB and a DisplayPort connector rather than VGA
Man you add sometimes comedy to your tech talk it's just hilarious 😆
I have the MSI 1gb edition of this card, and as terrible as it is it serves a niche purpose for PC builders. I have it for testing motherboards and GPUs, since it'll boot and output video in just about any system. I recently used it to figure out why my new used 6700XT wasn't outputting any video since my CPU has no onboard graphics, I could just throw this in alongside the 6700 XT to find out I had a driver conflict.
I had a laptop with radeon hd 8500m 1gb graphics until last year. I immediately felt nostalgic when I saw the fps in this video.
With your style of content and the hype from the steam deck, i would be interested in watching you do gaming on linux.
i played AC 4 Blackflag with this, and finished the game. i pushed the limits but it worked on my ddr2 system at the time. this was 2016-17.
My first GPU that I paired with an old core2duo hp tower. I could only run pre-2010 games smoothly with the 512mb version. I have a much better system now but I still have this card to remind me how far i've come.
Basically, what I would call a display adapter - OK to drive multiple displays, but that's about it. Modern Intel HD graphics or Ryzen APU iGPUs would perform better.
At this point for low profile users, 1650 or even the new 6400 are there for the taking, even enthusiasts can have the rtx A2000... options there are, I imagine Intel will come also with one of this that is actually potable! Options are nice, keep'em coming
That card is weaker than my phone somehow
Most phones nowadays are way more powerful that this card.
Honestly, far cry primal kinda looks awesome. Loved the third one, the fourth never appealed to me and I was away at a military school, liked 5 and 6 but they felt like consecutive steps away from what i liked of far cry 3. Perhaps it's worth a grab?
at least they are getting a complete experience now. as in smooth even at low fps..
hey can you tell us what the DDR2 version is like? :D
Hope you get your hands on a Radeon RX 6400 soon would love to see a video for a low end system....
when my main rig's psu blew up I had to stick for a week to a 2005 HP sff which had a 3450HD videocard in it, this 5450 wouldve been a massive improvement over it lol
4650 gddr2 was my buyer's regret
went to 5870, was mind blowing in crysis
I just got onebof these cards for 8 quid.
It was sitting at my local CEX for severall weeks.
I had the 4550 which has the same number of stream processors back in 2009 and for gaming it was pretty good (put hundreds of hours on L4D through that card). Back in 2009 most people were not gaming at full HD so lower end cards were pretty capable (especially playing anything made on the source engine).
For last 13 years I'm using this GPU. We are growing old together.
that was the first card i ever got!
has a kid that with some kind of a single core intel cpu
moved allot up as i run a ryzen 5950x with a 3090 this days and work as a 3d artist. but ill always remember it as my first! xD
I used a 4350 back in the day. Mostly because I had decided to focus on console gaming but it didn’t take too long before I got a 5670 which was a very good card for the low price.
I used a pc with this card for 2 months (my gpu died, and didn't had any other for my home pc), and actually is pretty usable for day-to-day use, but absolutely not gaming. But for gaming with pretty old games it's a good choice.
I appreciate the overwatch benchmark
Modified (NimeZ) drivers could probably improve performance as the official ones are hella old.
I was a little bit spoiled with my first card at the time, it was a Radeon r7770 with 1gb of gddr5 VRAM, I also had an AMD phenom II X4 paired with 4gb of DDR3 RAM
Patiently waiting for the creation of your new channel: RandomLookingBackAtTheEffectivenessOfGPU'sinHTPCBuildsinHD
I also have one (or I'm not sure if it's a 5450 or a mobility radeon 5430?) and I use it to test mainboard without integrated graphics, what really comes in handy especially for older cheap 4:3 monitors is the vga port, sometimes I wish newer cards also had one, but I also understand why they don't
for this purpose though it's perfectly fine
I had this in 2014, was much better than onboard Intel GMA hahahahaha was a great upgrade for me...
I just picked one up for my HP server, its just the cheapest way to get a digital output. :)
you tried Cyberpunk on this? Mad lad!!!
A visiontek hd5450 1gb ddr2 model was my very first "graphics" card. Later ended up with an XFX "ONE" version
So.... about that DDR2 model ;)
How much worse would that be?
Speaking of the HD 5450. It is possible to overclock this to almost 800 MHz, thus being able to squeeze out some extra frames.
The memory is also very overclockable
Omg, i had this in my Old asus laptop. IT was an upgrade from x1600 and felt amazing