AMD / ATI · AMD Evergreen
AMD Radeon HD 5450
Velocity9x: Verified working
A 2010 Evergreen card running a Windows 98 driver. Velocity9x feeds its command processor with AMD’s microcode and runs Direct3D, OpenGL and the Glide 2 probe on it.
- Manufacturer
- AMD / ATI
- Chip
- Cedar
- Family
- AMD Evergreen
- 3D engine
- Evergreen, through AMD’s CP microcode
- Bus
- PCI Express
- PCI ID
- 1002:68F9
Package
ati
Tested on
One tester’s card through remote help, up to 0.33.0. That card is no longer installed, and 0.34.0 or later has not run on one.
Acceleration by interface
2D / DirectDraw
Tested
DMA engine, flips
Direct3D
Tested
Direct3D 8
Not run
OpenGL
Tested
Two texture units
No
Glide
Probe
Glide 2 probe only
ATI 3DCIF
Not run
What has been tested
Direct3D at 16 and 32 bpp with 16-bit Z, one texture stage, specular, fog and colour keys; OpenGL; the Glide 2 probe; DirectDraw on the DMA engine and page flips. 3DMark 2000 and Quake 3 (63.6 fps, demo001, 0.32.0).
Known issues
- Older, not rerun since 0.33.0: trees vanish and reappear in 3DMark 2000’s Helicopter test.
Sources and testing notes
Tested games and benchmarks
| Title | API | Result | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quake III Arena | OpenGL | 63.6 fps, demo001 | 0.32.0 |
| 3DMark 2000 | Direct3D | Runs; trees flicker in the Helicopter test (0.33.0) | — |
- AMD Radeon HD 5450640x480 · v0.32.063.6 fps
Test setup and source
- Resolution
- 640x480
- Driver version
- 0.32.0
Not recorded: machine / cpu, cpu speed, colour depth, display mode, game / benchmark version, settings, test date.
Not a like-for-like comparison: machines and driver versions differ.
Install on Windows 98
- Take a cold backup and confirm you can reach Safe Mode.
- Download the
atipackage(ATI Mach64 / Rage and AMD Radeon). - Device Manager → Display adapters → Update Driver → Have Disk, over the top of the current driver.
- Shut down fully, then cold-start once.