If you got tired of waiting for the mighty Fermi and you want very cheap DirectX 11 solution, ATI has its Radeon HD 5450 for you. The card is out for roughly a month and sells for €35 or more depending on the configuration. This is by far the cheapest DirectX 11 card on the market.

It is based on Cedar Pro chip clocked at 650MHz and we're talking about a 40nm card with 512MB of 400MHz DDR2 memory. The cheapest one listed here is Power Color AX5450 and even this one has VGA, DVI and HDMI support, making it great for home theater PCs.

The same configuration by Sapphire will cost you 4 cents more or €34.84 and it offers roughly the same card just with blue low profile PCB, something that we have tested here.

Its not really fast due to its 64-bit memory interface, but at least it’s the cheapest DirectX 11 card on the market. It's also well worth noting that entry level Fermi probably won’t come for at least three more months if not more.