Smartphones, nettops, notebooks and tablets have taken over our everyday life. But what if you don’t feel like leaving the cozy living-room and would gladly watch a blockbuster Blue-ray movie or play your favorite game for a few hours? The answer is simple: HTPC with a good graphics accelerator inside will do the trick. Let’s check out the new solutions AMD has recently rolled out for this particular market.

It’s easy to tell which animal is faster, a tortoise or a cheetah, a hawk or a swallow, but if you delve deeper into the matter, you will find out that each animal is just as fast as is expected basing on the laws of survival and evolution.

In a similar way, PC component manufacturers are turning out various different products to match every market niche and every usage scenario. While we’re routinely reporting to you on new speed records set by high-performance products from AMD and NVIDIA, we’ve been somewhat neglecting the entry-level market segment. We are going to make our amends in this review and cover graphics cards which are not fast because they are just not meant to be such.
Caicos and Turks: Family Portrait

A year ago we tested three entry-level graphics cards from AMD in our review ATI Radeon HD 5670, Radeon HD 5570 and Radeon HD 5450: A Multimedia Ideal? and now we’ve got a new trio which includes Radeon HD 6670, 6570 and 6450. The transition to the newer generation has brought about a number of changes, both big and small, but the architecture of the Turks and Caicos chips has not changed fundamentally. These GPUs still use VLIW5 stream processors to execute instructions.

• READ MORE (Source): AMD Radeon HD 6670, Radeon HD 6570 and Radeon HD 6450: New Lightweight Champions? – X-bit labs