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[First Review] AMD Radeon HD 3450 128MB

January 15th, 2008 by Jeff Hardware, REVIEW

TestBed and remarks

RV620 is mainly for entry/HTPC, so the test is focus on its HD playback ability, and test a few popular games. The HD 3450 in our hand have a default frequency, the comparison card is Radeon HD 2400 Pro.

Intel Celeron 460

For simulating user’s platform, we use Intel Celeron 460(2.4GHz，12*200MHz). Because 7.1X Catalyst is not good for RV620, so we have to use Catalyst 8.45 RC3.

Cyberlink PowerDVD Ultra V7.3 can totally supports ATI Avivo HD and NVIDIA PureVideo HD, and support Blu-ray and HD DVD as well.Cyberlink PowerDVD Ultra V7.3 can also supports play .TS directly. Only few steps, and users can enable hardware acceleration. In our review we will use this software to test VGA card’s HD playback CPU usage.

We use Resource Monitor to record CPU usage

The specimens of out test are 5 high-definition clips. They are De Javu, X-Man3, The prestige, Pioneer Demo2006, King Kong. All five clips are 1080P.

In the 3D gaming test of course we will run 3Dmark06. Beside the benchmark tools we also run Quake Wars, Call of Duty 4 and Half-Life2. But in game settings we only can set games running at low detail and 1024X768. That’s the highest performance for RV620.

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8 Responses to “[First Review] AMD Radeon HD 3450 128MB”

  1. psolord Says:
    January 15th, 2008 at 7:51 pm

    Great card for HTPC and great review from expreview pointing out everything worth pointing as always. ATI seems to be on the right track! Also i hear that the new R700 will be more than 50% faster than todays cores so i guess ATI will manage to kick harder nvidias butt this year, like the arrogant bastards deserve.700USD for the 9800GX2? Get the hell out of the industry you stupid jerks!

  2. ME Says:
    January 16th, 2008 at 3:38 am

    @psolord: excellent post

  3. Guilit Says:
    January 16th, 2008 at 9:27 am

    RV620 Very worthwhile choice…..

  4. Jeff Says:
    January 16th, 2008 at 5:31 pm

    hey PSOlord, no flame, please.

  5. psolord Says:
    January 16th, 2008 at 7:14 pm

    Sorry jeff. I will restrain myself next time (at least i will try :P). But generally in forums, flaming against companies is allowed but not against persons or other posters. These guys at nvidia are funny, really. Thats what happens when you keep your nose up. Give people the half baked gt at 200euros but when serious performance comes into play go ahead and chop their heads off. I wonder how much they will ask for the GT200. I will curse at ATI too if they start taking their prices sky high.

  6. Hok Says:
    January 16th, 2008 at 7:44 pm

    Plz…someone…try hybrid SLI / crossfire?
    Good job to use low end CPU to test cpu usage!
    Please try the AGP version with lowest prosesor, like pentium III or Via to show how great the UVD and pure Video HD.

  7. Jeff Says:
    January 17th, 2008 at 11:18 am

    @Hok,
    be patient， both of the driver is not done yet.

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