HIS Intros New HTPC Graphics Card, the 5450 Silence 1GB

With everyone's attention now turned towards the upcoming Radeon HD 6900 graphics card series, it's a strange time to launch a Radeon 5400 series GPU, but this hasn't stopped HIS from announcing the passively cooled 5450 Silence 1GB graphics card, a rather strong HTPC solution.

Although this isn't a card that I would call impressive by any means, the HIS 5450 Silence 1GB manages to bring some pretty interesting features to the table such as AMD Eyefinity support and PCIe x1 connectivity.

Furthermore, HIS' creation would fit nicely in most HTPC cases around, as the 5450 Silence is built using a low-profile PCB, the company also bundling it with two low profile brackets, a must have for any graphics card that wants to be used in home entertainment systems.

Add to that the great multimedia capabilities the Radeon HD 5450 is well known for and you pretty much know this will be one solution that won't disappoint when used in an HTPC environment.

As far as its graphics power is concerned, this is a pretty regular Radeon HD 5450 GPU as it comes with a 650MHz clocked core and 1000MHz DDR3 memory, although HIS choose to go with a slower 64-bit memory interface that will most certainly impair the card's already limited gaming performance.

Talking about performance, the HD 5450 comes with 80 stream processors, 8 texturing units and 4 ROPs making it the weakest card in the Radeon HD 5000 line, although it does come with a very low 19.1W TDP.

The HIS 5450 Silence 1GB comes with a VGA port, one DVI port as well as with a DisplayPort connector, a DisplayPort-to-DVI dongle being required in order to build an Eyefinity setup if you don't own a DP-enabled monitor.

Unfortunately, HIS hasn't made any information about the cards’ price public until now.