AMD FirePro W4100 100-505979 2GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 Half Height Graphics Card

Pros: Arrived quickly as usual, nicely packaged.
Using with two Dell UP2414Q (about to add 3rd one) @ 60Hz. Seems to work. Feels a bit faster than NVS510 when doing layout and 3D PCB preview in Altium Designer 14. This is good. So far works wonderful as a 7680×2160 desktop. Cons: MiniDP connector closest to the card edge was broken. It looked kind of bent upwards when I took the card out, but I thought it was just how the mounting bracket made it look. However, that was enough so that the port wasn’t making video. Moved MiniDP cables by one plug up, and then everything was OK. Not a big deal since this will only support 3 4K displays at 60Hz, but if I was going to make a 4 monitor array @ 1080p this would have been a problem. AMD needs better QC on this.
No portrait/display rotation! This was one of the reasons I wanted to try this card, because NVS510 doesn’t support rotation of 4K displays with MST. Apparently, neither does this.
Dropping an egg off review for the above two points. Overall Review: I got this to replace NVidia NVS510 mostly because it had a similar power envelope and wasn’t NVidia. Dell UP2414Qs (at least early revisions, which is what I got) are notorious for having hardware/firmware bugs that make them not come out of standby mode, or power up with various noise/graphics artifacts, and I wanted to change vendors to see if the problem will go away. I will update this review later on if this card fixes these issues.

Pros: 4 Mini Displayports – Drivers are pretty stable and easy to use. Performance is great for the price. Used to run multiple 1080p projectors with video – no issues. Ran a 2 x 2 (4x 1080p) setup in 4k with Eyefinity flawlessly. Cons: 3d Performance. Had some issues running a custom unity 3d application. Was very simple app with basic graphics and this choked a bit. Then again, the price is great and it’s not designed for 3d. No eggs removed.

Pros: 4 ports, low profile, and surprisingly high performance. Cons: Some setups will require minidisplayport adapters. Overall Review: I am able to run 3 ASUS VN247HP monitors @ 1080p 60Hz.
I have a super low watt power supply in my Lenovo M73 mini tower.

Pros: For those that use computers for Digital Media creation this is a good solid card. Only the Quadro and FirePro models from AMD & NVidia respectively providing the 10-bit color workflow that quadruples the color space and tonality required for accurate gradation. As other reviewers here have noted this card is a slightly better performer than the current generation of iGFX integrated video cards on the Ivy Bridge, Haswell and Skylake platforms which support up to three displays (but not 10-bit workflows).
I notice LightRoom, PhotoShop and Premiere CC were all subjectively more “snappy” after replacing a FirePro 2270 with this card.
This card features 4 mini Display Port 1.2a interfaces capable of driving 4 4K displays natively. It also includes a single Passive mini Display Port to DVI-D Single Link adapter. Note that the passive adapter is only single-link and thus can only drive a display with a maximum resolution of either 1920×1200 at 60Hz (16×10 aspect ratio) or 1920×1080 (16×9). As it is DVI-D there is no analog signaling pins and the use of a passive DVI-I to VGA (D-15) Adapter will not work.
At under 50W TDP this card does not require additional power connections from the power supply and in most cases should not require a power supply upgrade but you should confirm this yourself as when adding any additional hardware.
I am running this card in a system with the Intel C226 Haswell chipset PCH but due to an on-board LSI RAID controller the available PCIe3.0 x16 slot only has 8 lanes available but this card still works as per the PCI specifications.
The card run more quietly than a Radeon HD5670 I had installed as a test but is smaller and unlike the Radeon is only 1 slot wide and a PCIe x1 FireWire or USB3 adapter in the adjacent x4 slot does not obstruct the fan opening.
I am running 2 Asus Pro Art PA248Q monitors at 1920×1200 using native Display Port connectors and a NEC P221W at 1680×1050 using the supplied passive DVI-I adapter. Under Windows 7 Pro 64-bit all displays are recognized and the Desktop extends properly. The Asus Displays are in Portrait mode and the NEC in Landscape but other orientations work as well. Hint: Windows assigns the monitors from the top DP interface down.
GPU Acceleration can be activated in Adobe LightRoom & PhotoShop using current drivers from AMD.
2 GB of GDDR5 is an adequate amount of VRAM for most uses. If you are using many layers in large files in PhotoShop you may benefit from more VRAM and might consider the W4300 instead which has twice the performance on most benchmarks and twice the VRAM and is twice the price of this card.
There are very few filters in PhotoShop that can take advantage of OpenCL acceleration and for most people the upgrade with the most noticeable improvement will be to add more RAM. But a half-decent video card is still needed so this card is a good compromise so I decided to forego the W4300 and used the money saved for another 16GB memory kit bough here at the Egg.
Though it is not listed here this card is manufactured by Sapphire as the exclusive manufacturer for the FirePro line. Cons: I’m a little suspect of the fan on the heatsink. It’s not huge but I have had smaller fans fail in the past but with AMDs three year warranty on the card if it does fail I will only be stuck with the shipping one-way. I’ve had to RMA FirePro Cards in the past and AMD support has been a pleasure to deal with and does provide advanced replacement. Hopefully the same can be said if one now has to deal with Sapphire.
The Mini Display Port connectors are not as rugged as the Full Sized connectors and lack a latching mechanism. This is somewhat off-set by the cables being much lighter than comparable DVI cables. Overall Review: Yes, I would recommend this product. It is a capable card for Business Productivity applications where multiple displays are required as well as light and medium Digital Media content creation. It provides good value for it’s cost and if, like me, you are running a Xeon processor without Integrated Graphics is a quick way to get solid graphics supporting 3 or 4 displays easily and the ability to scale up to 6 displays using MST hubs.
I purchased 2 6′ and 1 10′ Rosewill mini DP cables from the Egg with this card and they work well in my setup.