M4700 Owners Thread

Those benchmarks are for desktop cards.

The benchmarks you are looking for are in the Notebookcheck review of the Precision M4800, in the "Graphics Card" section.

Note that the Firepro M4000 is actually in the HP EliteBook 8570w, and it is compared to the nVidia Quadro K2000, K2100, K3000 and K4000.

If you take the framerates over the 8 CAD and Video benchmarks, assign 100% to the best result in each test, then average over all 8 tests, you get:

K2100M 92%
K2000M 74%
M4000 67%
K4000M 92%
K3000M 86%

So the Firepro M4000 isn't doing too bad - it's more a question of which benchmark is more relevant to you.

Note that the Firepro M5100 has about 50% more shader power than the M4000 - so it should beat all those nVidia cards on average.

 

Hey thanks for that summary. I was looking at the benchmarks of the cards on their individual notebookcheck pages and comparing the performance on each benchmark side by side.

For example:

NVIDIA Quadro K1000M - NotebookCheck.net Tech and
NVIDIA Quadro K2000M - NotebookCheck.net Tech

vs

AMD FirePro M4000 - NotebookCheck.net Tech

The numbers seem to favor the M4000 in those. That's still irrelevant to me since I don't care about having the latest and greatest. I just wanted to know if this card will run AutoCAD 2014 for medium sized projects and 3ds Max.

I'm a little out of my water in gauging requirements since this is for someone else. I could get by (and I do) on a lowly 3 year old E6510 for what I do.

Thanks again.

 

It will run AutoCad just fine.

Sent from my HUAWEI Y300-0100 using Tapatalk

 

Thanks for the confirmation.

 

Ah, I was in love with the machine and enjoying every bit of it until I just hit a weird snag.

I was checking out the various power profiles bundled by Dell. I selected the "Ultra Performance (Max Fan Levels)" and then selected "Dell" and the screen went near dark (I could see very very faint outline of the various programs on the screen.) I hit the brightness + keys and the screen went back on. Weird I thought.

Then I removed the power adapter (about 5 minutes after the last incident.) and when I plugged it back in, the screen went black again and after the screen came back on, the resolution went from 1920x1080 to 1024x768 (IIRC).

Checking to see the drivers now. Does anyone else have similar experience with this?

EDIT: even more problems! After installing some updates it asked to restart Windows and now all it does is show a blue rectangle with glitchy lines on the screen and not go any further. Restarting has not helped.

I can only log into safe mode.

Here's a photo:




This is the login screen. I tried entering the password and the same pattern alternated with a black screen and eventually Blue Screened. The dumps of which I collected after going into the safe mode.

Here's the BSOD screen shot.

 

Update:

The problem seemed to be fixed after a driver reinstall but came back after a shutdown and power up.

Dell has dispatched for a motherboard and GPU and will have a technician show up (hopefully soon.)

Wondering if it's worth my while to get this "repaired" or just return it. The repair probably guarantees a longterm fix (motherboard/gpu), while a return/replacement may or may not ensure a longterm fix.

 

Wow what a nightmare. The Dell tech came here this afternoon (3 days (2 if you want to be picky) after the service call was initiated) for a whole 2.5 hours.

After tearing the system down to the motherboard/cpu/gpu, we realized that the thermal paste on the cpu and gpu was different and the thermal paste for the gpu was not included in the GPU container.

After a (long) service call to dell about it, they said the same paste as the cpu should work. Reluctantly, the dell tech hung up and carried on. When he tried to install the new motherboard he realized the CMOS battery connector wouldn't fit into the new motherboard. Another (really long) call to Dell and it was established that the motherboard they sent was an incorrect model.

After a lot of back and forth on decision making, they Phone support decided to have it in for depot service. I called up dell separately and asked for a return or a replacement. They agreed to do either and I chose to replace.

Now the system could take up to 21 days to come in. I REALLY hope this one just works.

Over a week later from the order and no usable laptop. What a letdown.

 

sad to hear that powerslave

I have an issue myself: I received the M4700 as a company computer, and need to use the webcam. However, no drivers were installed & I didn't receive a driver CD. I've searched on internet, the 'firmware upgrade' available @ Dell says I don't have a webcam, the 'Dell Webcam Central' says I need to plugin a supported cam, and desperately trying to install the Creative Labs A04 driver (as I heard it was quite common) fails too of course.

What can I do? I need the webcam early next week for professional reasons. Can anyone at least tell me what kind of webcam we're talking about, maybe I can find the correct drivers then?

Thanks in advance!

 

Hi SvenVI, what applications are you trying to use with the webcam? You can try launching skype or something and see if it detects the webcam, and if it does, then the problem may lie with the app you're trying to use. If not, I would just go into the Device Manager and uninstall the webcam and let windows reinstall drivers for it.

Dell doesn't list any specific drivers for the webcam, but I assume they're bundled in one of the other driver packages.

Are you sure the laptop has a webcam physically present? It should look like a small square window between the two hinges on the top panel.

 

I've never needed to install a driver for the webcam... Both Windows 7 and Windows 8 seem to have a built-in driver that works fine.