AMD today launched the HD 5450, designated as the last and lightest member of the company's Evergreen family of GPUs.

Developed under the codename "Cedar", the 59mm2 chip has now been released as the ATI Radeon HD 5450. The chip has come as a replacement of the HD 4350.

At the core of the new offering are mere 80 stream processors, memory interface us a 64-bit one, plugged into a card and connected to 512MB of GDDR3. Two highlights of the new chip are the ability to support DX11 and lower power consumption than usual.

The card has been launched as the most affordable graphics chip around. Also, it is being touted as "extremely light on its toes", drawing only 19.1W when in full power and 6.4W when idle.

The chip has been priced at $60.