PowerColor Go! Green HD6450 1GB DDR3 HDMI Pro Reviews

The PowerColor Radeon HD 5450 is currently selling for around $50 USD retail where as the NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 meets that same price point and there are even GeForce GT 240 graphics cards for $55~60 USD. Knowing that, the NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 (or even the GeForce GT 220) is a tremendously better option than the Radeon HD 6450. The performance is much better and the proprietary NVIDIA driver video implementation with VDPAU is superior to XvBA with AMD UVD3, which makes it a better candidate for media / home theater PCs. About the only reason you'd want to stick with the Radeon HD 6450 over NVIDIA's low-end graphics cards is if wanting to support AMD and their official open-source strategy where as the open-source NVIDIA Linux driver is developed entirely by the community without any form of support from NVIDIA Corp. At this time, the open-source Radeon Linux driver is superior in terms of the feature-completeness (e.g. power management) of its DRM and Gallium3D components compared to Nouveau.