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.
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.
GPU Acceleration can be activated in Adobe LightRoom & PhotoShop using current drivers from AMD.Ģ GB of GDDR5 is an adequate amount of VRAM for most uses. Hint: Windows assigns the monitors from the top DP interface down. The Asus Displays are in Portrait mode and the NEC in Landscape but other orientations work as well.
Under Windows 7 Pro 64-bit all displays are recognized and the Desktop extends properly. I am running 2 Asus Pro Art PA248Q monitors at 1920x1200 using native Display Port connectors and a NEC P221W at 1680x1050 using the supplied passive DVI-I adapter. 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 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. 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.Īt 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. Note that the passive adapter is only single-link and thus can only drive a display with a maximum resolution of either 1920x1200 at 60Hz (16x10 aspect ratio) or 1920x1080 (16x9). It also includes a single Passive mini Display Port to DVI-D Single Link adapter. This card features 4 mini Display Port 1.2a interfaces capable of driving 4 4K displays natively. I notice LightRoom, PhotoShop and Premiere CC were all subjectively more "snappy" after replacing a FirePro 2270 with this card. 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). 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. Pros: For those that use computers for Digital Media creation this is a good solid card. Sapphire: AMD Firepro Products Mini BrochureĪdditional Information Date First Available Support for Microsoft Windows 8.1, Windows 7 and Linux (32-/64-bit)įCC, CE, C-Tick, BSMI, KCC, UL, VCCI, RoHS and WEEE complianceġ x DisplayPort to Single-Link DVI (Passive)
Internet connection for driver installationĪpplication optimizations and certificationsĪMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) GPU architectureĤK display resolution (up to 4096 x 2160)
Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 (32- or 64-bit)Īvailable PCIe x16 slot, 3.0 for optimal performance The motherboard has a PCIe 2.0 x16 lane while my card is PCIe gen 3.Learn more about the AMD 100-505979 Model Brand I found some old Acer Athlon x2 prebuilt with a PCIe x16 lane and the computer displayed a video signal no issue.ĮDIT 2: I realized I overlooked something. I also got w4100 drivers from dell to see if that would resolve the problem but was left with no change in the situation.ĮDIT: It has a high chance of being a detection over driver issue. I had the AMD Drivers installed and received this message. I did get a pop up upon one boot stating that there is no driver installed or the driver isn't functioning properly.
I also updated Windows to version 1909 without any change. I attempted booting with that setting both enabled and disabled with no result.
Then under APCI configuration, the only setting of note was to enable or disable keeping PCI devices powered on. The fans did spin and the peripherals did work so at least it posts (presumably). I tried booting with both of those settings and the card in the x16 lane but no display.
Under northbridge settings I could set my primary display adapter as PCIe or PCI. Well, I took another look at the bios but there isn't much to play around with.