AMD - FIREPRO RADEON PRO WX 7100 8GB PCIE 3.0 16X 4X DP RETAIL IN

With graphic card prices sky rocketing due to mining, would a still rather highly-priced "old" professional graphics card make any sense at this point in time? Miners, this card is not for you. Please look elsewhere and inflate the prices of other cards!I would say a rather resounding "YES!" with a few caveats that this card still do make sense to some.... please read on.This old AMD Radeon Pro WX7100 is currently a direct competition to the newer Nvidia Quadro P4000. They are both single slot professional cards that are currently (mid March 2018) the fastest offered by each competing manufacturer.Two myths I have gladly debunked.1. Professional graphic cards are not good for gaming. Nonsense! The WX7100 absolutely rocks for casual gamers for classics like Starwars Battlefield at ultra settings etc. on default professional drivers. AMD also made it easy to switch to gaming drivers easily! You do have to manage your expectations as it is not a Vega 64 or Titan X class monster. But comparing this to a GTX960 which it replaced, I am rather impressed with the decent frame rates.2. Professional graphic cards have the same display quality as gaming cards. There is a noticable difference! This is where this card really shines. There are various customisations for the perfect display on whatever the monitor or TV screen you hook the card to. I use this with a Samsung TV with a HDMI to DP adaptor and the display quality is outstanding after tweaking. Movies played with VLC looked so much better with blacks showing more dynamic range. Text are very much easier to read too!A few things I like about the WX7100.1. Modest power consumption. It uses just a 6-way PCie power supply plug from my HP Z620 workstation with no stress added to the PSU.2. Single PCie slot. It is very refreshing to replace a space-hogging double slot graphics card with the WX7100 on a real-estate contrained workstation and yet, you do not compromise on performance.3. It's about the software. AMD creates the drivers that are certified and stable for any use. I absolutely love the additional configurability not available on consumer cards that allow tweaking of the display for better suitability for any useage.There is only one thing I am irritated about the WX7100. The single cooling fan on the card spins very loud when rendering in Blender or when playing games. The noise is noticable coming from within a rather quiet workstation. I guess this is the compromise for choosing a smaller, single slot card in a fully packed chasis.On paper, the P4000 may be faster in every way and if you require CUDA for your professional needs, AMD cannot be your consideration. But for OpenGL, the WX7100 is very well equipt to satisfy.With the P4000 currently costing upwards of 50% more than the WX7100, there is yet an additional value proposition when AMD directly provides you with a free 7-year warranty on top of the original 3-year AMD warranty.If you only play games, you don't need to pay through your nose with a professional graphics card. You will be most happy with the best consumer gaming card within your budget. However, if you use Blender (or any OpenGL apps), love to watch movies with HDR, game occasionally and love a stable and reliable VR-ready display card with a 10-year warranty to boot, this may be the perfect solution for you!In the near future, I will find the opportunity to test this card out with Windows AR and other VR solutions. Now, where can I get hold of a new VR headset from Samsung (Odessey) or the new Vive Pro?....

Does everything you'd expect it to do. I've ran some of the sample stuff on Unreal engine, like the kite Demo (which most GPU's can't handle), which is chock a block with 4k textures and hi poly models (5000 polly tree, they must be mad!), it takes a while, but it does it. It rendered the shooter Demo nicely, only taking about half an hour to build the level (working with a xeon 5620, if you think that matters). Then there's what I call the Radeon look, it makes things look more realistic, not glossy and flashy like Nvidia.It's lightning fast for my own CGI projects. You can see it has a huge color space, even on a crap monitor. It played Crysis 1, so smoothly I actually got into the game and started to really enjoy it, toggling through the abilities almost like on the sample videos.So it's fit for purpose, everything an entry level graphics card should be.

I wanted a work GPU that offered decent performance and could drive up to 4 monitors using full size displayport outputs (Accell offer longer cables for full size DP connections and comply with DP specs). I read the reviews and this traded blows with Nvidia's M2000/P2000 on a fairly equal basis. I prefer AMD's workstation cards as they have an aluminium shroud that should help dissipate heat and make them more robust, plus they come with a 10 year guarantee.The card itself seems very high quality and it has performed flawlessly for me so far. The reviews said it was quiet even under load and I can confirm that it is effectively silent (inaudible over the Noctua fans in my case). Under load the fan does ramp up a little but remained inaudible. Operating temperature is about 44 degrees Celsius with fans at under 20%. I'm doing fairly light work on 3 screens. If you want to do occasional gaming it is probably comparable to an older card such as the AMD HD7970Ghz - certainly good enough for 1080p.

Maybe my version is faulty, but the image quality is dreadful, no-where near as good ad the original HD output that my motherboard produces.This is more like a crappy old VGA signal from days of yore, when the first flat panel monitors first made an appearance.I've installed the correct drivers, uninstalled them, re-installed them, to no avail. In fact, it makes no difference whether the drivers are installed or not, it still looks dreadful.It's unusable for anything serious like photo or video editing, and is only just about good enough for writing in Word and using a web browser.Not what I'd expect from a so-called Pro card.

Under rated pro graphics card. Rendering a 3D building went from 10.5 hours with a GTX960Ti to 2.5 mins using this card. Small, low power, awesome speed and great clarity. Not a gaming card and not sure about bitcoin mining, but certainly a graphics card for images, video, 3D and so on. Runs a 32in HD monitor with out really trying