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ATI Technologies Radeon HD 3450 Manual

ATI Technologies Radeon HD 3450 Manual

High definition htpc for the masses

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ATI Radeon™ HD 3450
High Definition HTPC for the masses

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Summary of Contents for ATI Technologies Radeon HD 3450

  • Page 1 ATI Radeon™ HD 3450 High Definition HTPC for the masses...
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    How To Evaluate Video Playback Performance ... 8 Video Playback Performance ... 13 Appendix A: ATI Radeon™ HD 3450 based HTPC ... 16 ©2007 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., AMD, The AMD arrow, Athlon, ATI, the ATI logo, Avivo, Catalyst, The Ultimate Visual Experience and Radeon are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
  • Page 3: Introduction

    Devices, Inc. Features, pricing, availability and specifications may vary by product model and are subject to change without notice. Products may not be exactly as shown. Not all features may be implemented by all manufacturers. Introduction optical drives; however, the remaining PC components might ATI Radeon™ HD 3450 - Video Review Guide...
  • Page 4 UVD engine that both reduce CPU utilization under HD decode and also improve memory bandwidth utilization in order to maintain hardware HD decoding at higher resolutions. The net result is that even the DDR2 equipped ATI Radeon™ HD 3450 will facilitate hardware decoding of 1080p and 1080i VC-1 and H.264/AVC encoded content at 1920x1200 / 1080p desktop resolutions.
  • Page 5 HD 3000 series solution, it can provide seamless HDMI HD 3000 series innovate with the HD 3000 series ASICs have with HDCP keys integrated, AMD’s add-in board ATI Radeon™ HD 3450 - Video Review Guide HD 3000 series are designed HD 3000 Series...
  • Page 6 Devices, Inc. Features, pricing, availability and specifications may vary by product model and are subject to change without notice. Products may not be exactly as shown. Not all features may be implemented by all manufacturers. HD 3000 ATI Radeon™ HD 3450 - Video Review Guide...
  • Page 7: Video Benchmarking Checklist

    Devices, Inc. Features, pricing, availability and specifications may vary by product model and are subject to change without notice. Products may not be exactly as shown. Not all features may be implemented by all manufacturers. discs ATI Radeon™ HD 3450 - Video Review Guide...
  • Page 8: How To Evaluate Video Playback Performance

    Devices, Inc. Features, pricing, availability and specifications may vary by product model and are subject to change without notice. Products may not be exactly as shown. Not all features may be implemented by all manufacturers. Alternatively, you can create a ATI Radeon™ HD 3450 - Video Review Guide...
  • Page 9 Devices, Inc. Features, pricing, availability and specifications may vary by product model and are subject to change without notice. Products may not be exactly as shown. Not all features may be implemented by all manufacturers. Properties menu where you can change the duration and ATI Radeon™ HD 3450 - Video Review Guide...
  • Page 10 Devices, Inc. Features, pricing, availability and specifications may vary by product model and are subject to change without notice. Products may not be exactly as shown. Not all features may be implemented by all manufacturers. You can enable and disable hardware Video menu: ATI Radeon™ HD 3450 - Video Review Guide...
  • Page 11 Devices, Inc. Features, pricing, availability and specifications may vary by product model and are subject to change without notice. Products may not be exactly as shown. Not all features may be implemented by all manufacturers. ATI Radeon™ HD 3450 - Video Review Guide...
  • Page 12 Devices, Inc. Features, pricing, availability and specifications may vary by product model and are subject to change without notice. Products may not be exactly as shown. Not all features may be implemented by all manufacturers. ATI Radeon™ HD 3450 - Video Review Guide...
  • Page 13: Video Playback Performance

    Cyberlink PowerDVD Ultra (ver. 3509) LG GGC-H20L Super Multi Blue Blue-ray Disc & HD DVD-ROM Dell 2407FPW 24” LCD ATI Catalyst™ 8.1 (8.45) December 12, 2007 ATI Radeon™ HD 3450 - Video Review Guide GeForce System GeForce™ 8400 GS (G86) Forceware 169.12 (Beta)
  • Page 14 1080p Video Content Playback Performance 1920x1200 8400GS (G86) HD 2400 PRO 25.6% 24.4% 24.4% 24.5% 25.2% 35.9% 27.4% 28.1% 26.5% 21.8% 28.4% 29.3% 32.0% CPU Utilization ATI Radeon™ HD 3450 - Video Review Guide HD 3450 42.5% 41.3%...
  • Page 15 As noted previously 1080i VC-1 and H.264/AVC as well as HD MPEG-2 content still fall-back to fully software based decoding on the ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 PRO whereas the ATI Radeon™ HD 3450 can provide lower CPU utilization with hardware accelerated decoding...
  • Page 16: Appendix A: Ati Radeon™ Hd 3450 Based Htpc

    Appendix A: ATI Radeon™ HD 3450 based HTPC This is an overview of the cost of a home theater PC (HTPC) based on ATI Radeon™ HD 3450, enabling both Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD formats. PRDOUCT ATI Radeon™ HD 3450 AMD Athlon™...
  • Page 17 Devices, Inc. Features, pricing, availability and specifications may vary by product model and are subject to change without notice. Products may not be exactly as shown. Not all features may be implemented by all manufacturers. DISCLAIMS IMPLIED ATI Radeon™ HD 3450 - Video Review Guide WARRANTIES...