Possible GPU upgrade for Precision M4600

So i was doing research for GPU upgrades. The surefire upgrades seem to be the M4000 and M5100.
However, where i live the M5100 is ridiculously expensive for the performance upgrade you get over the M4000.
When i was looking for cheap M5100 GPUs on ebay, I found a strange GPU called the Firepro S4000X. It's an MXM 3.0A card with 2gb of GDDR5,
It seems to be the exact same card as the M5100, (Same amount of stream processors, TMUs, ROPs, etc) however on AMD's website, it says this:

"No physical display outputs on S4000X module
Module features six display engines capable of supporting up to six displays
Single display maximum resolution 4096x2160"

Does anyone know if this GPU is compatable with the M4600? It fits the bill, but I'm not 100% sure. Considering it has the EXACT same performance as the M5100, for less then half the price (Where I am in america) I think it could be a great upgrade for me.

 

Hi guys,

Have you guys tried FirePro M5100 & M4600 combo for Adobe After Effects? do they work just fine? I'm trying to do lots of animation rendering.
It looks like M5100 has better spec than K2000M, K2100M or even K3000M!
If M5100 works fine with Adobe software, I'm buying one now...

 

Question answered:
http://www.amd.com/en-us/solutions/professional/workstations/media-entertainment

AMD firepro works well with Adobe products, Cienma 4D.

 

What???
Is GTX 1050 Ti availalbe in MXM 3.0a format?
Can you use this card on M4600?
and where can you buy this?
It would be unbelievable if this wroks for m4600.
1050 Ti is better than K5000M.

 

Hi guys, I'm very interested in this S4000X module as well...
It seems like the same one as M5100 but it sells for only $20.
Has anyone tried this on M4600??

 

Nope.

Latest known working cards are the m5100 and a W series card that I cant remember right now.

 

but I know for sure that these M4600, M4700, M4800 based on DDR3 will become junk in 2018...

DDR5 ram is coming. It's twice faster than DDR4.
https://www.theinquirer.net/inquire...g-next-year-and-will-be-twice-as-fast-as-ddr4

M4800 makes sense in 2017... but when we see DDR5 ram, maybe that will change.

 

If the keyboard is junk then I wouldnt touch it even if it was DDR9

 

DDR5 will be standardized in 2018, but won't be hitting PCs in mainstream until 2019-2020 (or later ... DDR4 was standardized in 2012 and did not appear in mainstream until 2015). Usually your performance bottleneck is somewhere other than memory speed. I don't think that it is going to suddenly cause the M4600-M4800 machines to become "junk"... They'll still work just as well as they do right now.

There's always something faster around the corner... That's the rule of computing.

I'm more interested in RAM doubling again in capacity so that we can have 128GB in a mobile workstation. I'm starting to use multiple VMs a lot more. This is something that could actually potentially happen next year.

 

128GB ram would be amazing.....

We have 16GB P5000 graphic card now but the one which uses it looks like a monster laptop.
https://www.msi.com/Workstation/WT73VR-7RM.html#hero-overview

No way you can carry something this thick in a backpack...
We need to wait until they manage to cram it into a thinner & lighter laptop.