Well, this is nice: a Radeon HD 5000 series graphics card available on the cheap. It looks like you’re not sacrificing much in performance, either: The $US60 Radeon 5450 has full DX11 graphics and Eyefinity multi-display support.
The $US60 version comes with a 512MB memory configuration, and you lose a little speed compared to the 5800 and 5600 lines. But the 5450 is also optimised for HTPCs, with HDMI 1.3a with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio.
UPDATED: Hey all! Took down a video that had been posted here previously, whose purpose was to demonstrate what DirectX is capable of. The 5450 does have DX11 support, but I didn’t mean to imply that this particular card would give you that exact performance shown in the video. I clearly see how that could have been misinterpreted, though. [BusinessWire]
matt
Friday, February 5, 2010 at 11:15 AMcool, but you might want to ask yourself why you want directX 11, really, theoretical videos are all well and good, but as long as the current gen consoles keep sucking the life out of technical innovation…
“But the 5450 is also optimised for HTPCs, with HDMI 1.3a with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio.”
this is what I’d buy it for, htpc’s are REALLY buggy and hard to set up (at least it was the time i tried it a few years ago) so I recommend going with the latest tech for that.