Graphics Card upgrade for M6800 ?

Hello, do any of you know if a Radeon Pro WX 7100 would work on the precision m6800? I read through these posts and couldn't find a definitive answer.

 

All I found was that a similar card has fan issues

 

Well if you search this thread there's a lot you can do about fan problems.....there's a better heatsink (For Nvidia cards at least) and software solutions to make a fan run better. I would ask why you want that particular card? There are fairly well established road maps to getting a gtx 980m working and a method that seems to get 50% of P5000 Quadro's working and those are both capable cards ....

 

Mainly because I found one that's the same price as the 980m I wanted to get

 

and it is about the same performance as a tesla m6

 

I copied the ratings from Notebook checks page, these are the top tier cards ....
NVIDIA Titan RTX
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (Desktop)
GeForce RTX 2080 (Desktop)
Radeon VII
GeForce RTX 2080 (Laptop) *
GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q *
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
Titan X Pascal
GeForce GTX 1080 SLI (Laptop)
GeForce GTX 1070 SLI (Desktop)
GeForce GTX 1070 SLI (Laptop)
GeForce RTX 2070 (Desktop)
GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop)
GeForce RTX 2070 (Laptop) *
RX Vega 64
RX Vega 56
GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop)
GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q *
GeForce RTX 2060 (Desktop) *
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti (Desktop)
GeForce RTX 2060 (Laptop) *
GeForce GTX 980 SLI (Laptop)
Quadro P5200
Pro Vega 56 *
GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop)
GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q
GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q *
GeForce GTX 1070 (Laptop)
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Laptop) *
Quadro P4200
Quadro P5000
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q *
Quadro P5000 Max-Q *
GeForce GTX 980M SLI
Radeon R9 Fury
Radeon R9 Nano
GeForce GTX 980
Radeon RX 590
Radeon RX 580
GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
Quadro M5500
Radeon R9 390X
GeForce GTX 970M SLI
GeForce GTX 1060 (Desktop)
Quadro P4000
Radeon RX 480
GeForce GTX 1060 (Laptop)
Quadro P4000 Max-Q
Quadro P3200
Radeon RX 580X (Laptop) *
Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)
GeForce GTX 780 Ti
Vega Mobile *
Quadro P3000
GeForce GTX 970
GeForce GTX 1650 (Laptop) *
GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q
Quadro P3000 Max-Q *
Radeon RX 480 (Laptop) *
Radeon Pro WX 7100 *
Radeon RX 470 (Desktop)
Radeon RX 570X (Laptop) *
Radeon RX 570 (Laptop) *
Radeon RX 470 (Laptop) *
GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q *

The ones with asterisks haven't been fully tested (I think) so they are guessing. I do know that's their best attempt at a ranking and I've generally found them to be pretty accurate .........

 

These are the cards I'm looking at: https://www.notebookcheck.net/GeForce-GTX-980M-vs-Radeon-Pro-WX-7100_5964_7964.247598.0.html, https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Radeon+Pro+WX+7100&id=3611, https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=GeForce+GTX+980M

 

The Radeon has a score about 3000 higher

 

I'd get one with at least 30 day returns....you would have time to see if it can work for you...

 

The issue with newer radeon cards is that there’s no auto fan control at all, so if you don’t set up software to manually control the fan, your gpu will overheat.