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There's a sync connection for stereoscopy as well. So the W9100 can provide truly massive arrays of screens, with 3D acceleration available on all of them at once. The W9100 provides the same complement of 6 mini DisplayPorts, each one with support for version 1.2 of the standard to drive up to 4K resolutions (4,096 x 2,160). However, Shader Model support remains at 5.0, since there is nothing beyond this just yet. The updated GPU therefore has only minor enhancements to its graphics feature abilities, with support for DirectX 11.2, OpenGL 4.3, and OpenCL 1.2 all a 0.1 dot increment higher. There's a sync connection for stereoscopy as well' 'The W9100 can provide truly massive arrays of screens, with 3D acceleration available on all of them at once. However, although the W9100 has a considerably more powerful GPU than the W9000, the latter was the significant design change, with the switch from VLIW SIMD to RISC SIMD, which improves GPGPU performance. Power consumptions and connectivityĪmazingly, while the transistor count for all the extra Stream Processors has ballooned from 4.31 billion to 6.2 billion, the thermal design power has only increased by 16W from 274W to 290W. The W9100 name may only be an increment over the W9000, but there is a lot more graphics power contained within. The W9100 is aimed at the rapidly increasing interest in 4K production. But the most significant factor is that this graphics card sports a staggering 16GB of GDDR5 memory, where the W9000 only offers 6GB, and even NVIDIA's Quadro K6000 only has 12GB. The wider bus means the W9100 can provide 320GB per second memory bandwidth compared to the W9000's 264GB per second. However, this should also be weighed against the 512-bit memory bus of the W9100 compared to the 384-bit memory bus of the W9000.

The GDDR5 memory also runs at a slightly slower 5GHz, compared to the W9000's 5.5GHz, although here again this is a mere 10-percent reduction. 'The most significant factor is that this graphics card sports a staggering 16GB of GDDR5 memory, where the W9000 only offers 6GB, and even NVIDIA's Quadro K6000 only has 12GB'

The core clock has actually been reduced slightly from 975MHz to 930MHz, although this only amounts to a 5-percent drop. This won't necessarily lead to a 37.5-percent boost in performance, as the clock speed has some influence too, and the relationship is not a linear one anyway due to the overheads associated with parallel thread processing. Where the W9000 offers 2,048 Stream Processors and 128 texture units, the W9100 sports 2,816 Stream Processors and 176 texture units, increases of 37.5 per cent in both cases. The FirePro W9100's numbering implies that it's merely a small improvement over the W9000, but the specification really doesn't bear that out.

#Graphic card benchmark amd firepro full#

The AMD FirePro W9100 has a 290W maximum draw, so requires the full complement of PCI Express power connections.ĪMD needed something to head it off at the pass, and what the company came up with was the Graphics Core Next 1.1 refresh to its Graphics Core Next 1.0 GPUs, the first professionally oriented example of which is the FirePro W9100 we have on review here. NVIDIA launched its K-series Quadros almost exactly a year ago, based on its Kepler generation, and its Maxwell generation has already rolled out for consumer platforms, so Quadro iterations will be imminent.

That's quite a long time in the graphics card business, with new GPU generations arriving on an annual basis or even more frequently.

#Graphic card benchmark amd firepro professional#

It has been a while since AMD launched the FirePro W-series of professional 3D accelerators in August 2012. Product: Sapphire AMD FirePro W9100 Company: AMD Website: MSRP: $3,999 US (approx. AMD's latest high-end workstation graphics accelerator packs a huge punch, but is it best suited for 4K production? We check it out to bring you the low-down