Over the last few months we have steadily seen AMD release an entire new line of graphics processors for nearly all price segments. It starts with the high-end iterations including the Radeon HD 5970, HD 5870 and HD 5850 then continues to the performance parts like the HD 5700-series. Earlier in 2010 we saw the Radeon HD 5000-series break the $100 price point with the Radeon HD 5670 graphics card. Today we are seeing the completion of the Evergreen series of GPUs in the discrete market; at least for now. The Radeon HD 5450 is based on the "Cedar" core, the smallest of the roadmap seen above and we will likely see the HD 5500 series (first mentioned during the release of the HD 5670) later in the month. The Radeon HD 5450 is going to run you less $60 - not exactly a graphics card that many in our audience tend to get excited about. But not only do we think you SHOULD be interested, but it is very obvious why AMD (and NVIDIA as well) are interested: discrete graphics cards selling for $100 make up over 66% of the total market. Most of the 11.5 million WoW gamers and most of the 15 million Steam account holders have sub-$100 graphics cards as well and resolutions lower than 1920x1200. For these casual PC gamers, the Radeon HD 5450, 5500-series and 5670 are the most appealing options.
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