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FirePro W4000 is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI-Express 3.0 x16 interface. Display outputs include: 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort 1.2. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 825 MHz, memory is running at 800 MHz (3.2 Gbps effective).īeing a single-slot card, the AMD FirePro W4000 does not require any additional power connector, its power draw is rated at 75 W maximum. AMD has paired 2,048 MB GDDR5 memory with the FirePro W4000, which are connected using a 256-bit memory interface. It features 768 shading units, 48 texture mapping units, and 32 ROPs. Unlike the fully unlocked Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition, which uses the same GPU but has all 1280 shaders enabled, AMD has disabled some shading units on the FirePro W4000 to reach the product's target shader count. The Pitcairn graphics processor is an average sized chip with a die area of 212 mm² and 2,800 million transistors. Built on the 28 nm process, and based on the Pitcairn graphics processor, in its Pitcairn LE GL variant, the card supports DirectX 12.
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On paper it looks to be a big improvement over the Quadro K1200 it replaces.The FirePro W4000 was a professional graphics card by AMD, launched on August 7th, 2012.

We look forward to seeing see how Nvidia’s new low profile Quadro P1000 GPU (£348 + VAT) compares and what it brings to the growing SFF workstation market.
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Here, you’d probably want to step up to a tower with a Radeon Pro WX 5100 (£356 + VAT), Nvidia Quadro P2000 (£470 + VAT) or higher – and definitely if you plan to use a 4K display. The Pro WX 4100 does start to show its limitations when used for ‘game engine’ design viz applications. Now, they can satisfy more demanding 3D CAD users, giving fewer reasons to invest in a tower workstation that takes up valuable desk space. SFF workstations used to be about 2D and entry-level 3D CAD. The fact that it can deliver the kind of performance it does in a SFF workstation is a huge bonus.
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Test machine: Scan 3XS Ultimate 2D Plus workstation, ‘Kaby Lake’ Intel Core i7-7700K CPU (4.6GHz), 32GB RAM, NVMe SSD and Windows 7 Professional ConclusionĬonsidering that the Pro WX 4100 costs just over £250 Ex VAT, it looks to be an excellent choice for mainstream 3D CAD. While it delivered our 1,280 x 1,024 resolution test render in a respectable 358 seconds, if you take your GPU rendering seriously using applications like V-Ray RT we recommend you invest in a more poweful GPU like the Radeon Pro WX 7100 or Quadro P4000 - or multiple thereof. We also tested the Radeon Pro WX 4100 with a beta release of AMD’s GPU renderer, Radeon ProRender for SolidWorks.

But it wasn’t really up to the job at 4K resolution as performance dropped to between 6 and 10 FPS respectively. The SPECapc for SolidWorks 2015 benchmark reported a 143% drop in performance.įor design visualisation proper, the Radeon Pro WX 4100 delivered satisfactory performance in two of our demanding ‘game engine’ benchmarks delivering scores of 17 and 38 FPS. Then, some of our test models became a little sluggish. However, this didn’t really become an issue until we turned on RealView and Ambient Occlusion. In SolidWorks shaded with edges mode performance fell by 58%. We also tested the Radeon Pro WX 4100 at 4K resolution (3,840 x 2,160) using an HP Z24s display. In Revit, the 13 Frames Per Second (FPS) we got made it a little hard to position our large test model quickly and accurately but, in this highly CPU limited application, no amount of graphics processing would overcome this. All our test models could be manipulated smoothly, even when viewed with realistic materials and shadows. In general, we found the Radeon Pro WX 4100 to handle pretty much anything we threw at it in SolidWorks at FHD resolution.
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However, considering the Nvidia Quadro P2000 is a full height GPU and costs nearly twice as much as the Radeon Pro WX 4100 this came as no surprise.īenchmarks tell an important story, but mean nothing without context.

In SolidWorks this ranged from 26% in shaded with edges mode to 47% with RealView, shadows and Ambient Occlusion. The Nvidia Quadro P2000 was notably faster than the Radeon Pro WX 4100. The Radeon Pro WX 5100 had a 24% lead over the Radeon Pro WX 4100. Here, the Radeon Pro WX 4100 demonstrated a 16% lead over the FirePro W5100. It was only when ramping up the visual quality with RealView, shadows and Ambient Occlusion that differences started to appear. When viewing models in shaded with edges mode in SolidWorks we found very little between the AMD GPUs at FHD (1,920 x 1,080) resolution. We tested the Radeon Pro WX 4100 with two professional CAD applications - SolidWorks 2015 and Autodesk Revit 2015 - and two ‘game engine’ design viz tools, Autodesk LIVE (now called Autodesk Revit Live) and Bentley Systems LumenRT. The AMD Radeon Pro WX 4100 features four Mini DisplayPort 1.4 outputs Radeon Pro WX 4100 – Performance
