Amd radeon pro wx 7100
What specifically is causing the driver 17q4 to have issues in SolidWorks is unknown. Installing SolidWorks 2018 SP01 and Radeon Pro driver 17q1 (17.10) instead of the latest 17q4 (17.30) resolved the graphical smearing issues. And I still have not been able to claim the warranty! Your product has cost me well over $2,000 dollars in my (troubleshooting) time and money. The 1-800 support number is useless for warranty claims as the automated recording tells you to go to AMD's site.ĪMD, this not how you build customer loyalty. Now, I just tried to claim warranty on AMD's own site and the warranty page returned a 'request error' after submitting the completed form. A nearly $800 product (when bought new) and this is what you get for customer support.
AMD RADEON PRO WX 7100 INSTALL
All they told me was to use DDU for a clean driver install and when that did not work, they told me to wait for a new driver release.
Ended up buying an nVidia Quadro P2000 to hold me over until I can process the AMD Radeon Pro through warranty.Įarlier this year (in May of 2018) I contacted AMD's customer services. Tried different Display Port cables, while switch to different monitors to eliminated monitor and cable issues. Fifth time was with an old nVidia Quadro K4000 GPU, suddenly no issues. Four times trying out 18 releases and different Radeon Pro drivers. Re-installed Windows 10 Pro five times. And that is when I determined that the culprit was the GPU: The issue really came about as I decided to re-installing Windows 10 to have a clean go and see if that would clear up the issues. I don't know if AMD produced a bad GPU or Newegg warranty replacement gave me somebody else's "refurbished" WX 7100, but regardless the product failed. It turns out that all the graphical and performance issues I was having was due to the WX 7100 and not the drivers. Price was the main reason I decided to try AMD's line of workstation GPUs, and so far I am really happy. Once the system had the GPU switched from K4000 to WX 7100, the user experience was a night and day - smoothness in model rotation/manipulation and load times see SolidWorks' benchmark performance numbers below. The last card I was using under the current set-up was a Quadro K4000, which was completely anemic compared to the Radeon Pro WX 7100. Have been using nVidia GPUs since 2004 (AutoCAD and SolidWorks) and for the price this is an excellent card. Pros: - Runs SolidWorks (2017 SP5.0) like butter.