The core clock remains at 650MHz and the DDR3 memory interface has an 1800MHz data rate. Priced at a whopping $70, this GPU comes with 400 SPs and a 128-bit memory bus. The Radeon HD 5570 is a more formidable opponent. The 5450 will set you back $45 at Newegg and is passively cooled. That’s more compute power than the Intel HD Graphics 3000 but less memory bandwidth than a Sandy Bridge if you assume the CPU cores aren’t consuming more than half of the available memory bandwidth.

The SPs run at 650MHz and the DDR3 memory interface has a 1600MHz data rate. The 5450 is a DX11 part with 80 SPs and a 64-bit memory bus.

If your cpu has turboboost capabilities, it will allow your card to perform better.I dusted off two low-end graphics cards for this comparison: a Radeon HD 5450 and a Radeon HD 5570. The 3000 series, allows older games to be played at high graphics settings and current games mostly at low graphics details. It also supports DirectX 10.1, Shader Model 4.1 and HDMI 1.4. The performance of the 3000 is a lot better than the older integrated video cards because it has a unit dedicated to decoding and encoding of HD videos. With the 3000 series, the graphics card is directly integrated in the processor core of the Sandy-Bridge processor.Another drawback was the fact that incorporated graphic cards could only compete with cheap discreet graphic cards. The main drawback that you had before with incorporated graphics card, was that if it died, most times you had to change the whole motherboard. If you only want to use if for the odd video game and transcoding is good enough. That does not mean that it would perform better than a middle/high quality discreet card. Hello, the 3000 series are a good graphics when compared with the previous versions.

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