AMD FirePro W4300 4 GB T7T58AA

AMD FirePro W4300

The AMD FirePro W4300 Kicking off a busy day for professional graphics.

AMD is first up to announce that they will be launching a quartet of new FirePro cards.

As part of the company’s gradual FirePro refresh that began with the W9100 in April and followed by W8100 in June.

today AMD is gearing up to refresh the rest of their FirePro lineup .

with new products for the mid-range and low-end segments of the pro graphics market.

Being announced today are the FirePro W7100, W5100, W4100, and W2100.

These parts are based on a range of AMD GPUs –

including Tonga, a new GPU that has yet to show up in any other AMD products .

and are designed to the sub-$2500 market segment that the current W8100 tops out at.

With a handful of exceptions, the bulk of these upgrades are straightforward, focused on making AMD’s entire FirePro.

lineup 4K capable.

improving performance across the board, and doubling the amount of VRAM.

compared to the past generation to allow for larger data sets to be used.

 

Technical perspective

Starting at the top, from a technical perspective the W7100 is the most interesting of the new FirePro cards.

Whereas the previous-generation W7000 was based on a second-tier version of AMD’s venerable Tahiti GPU, the W7100 gets a brand new GPU entirely.

one that we haven’t seen before. Named Tonga, this new GPU is a smaller, lower performance part that slots in under the Hawaii GPU used in the W9100 and W8100.

However while AMD is announcing the W7100 today they are not disclosing any additional information on Tonga.

so while we can draw some basic conclusions from W7100’s specifications a complete breakdown of this new GPU will have to wait for another day.