AMD’s FirePro S10000 once served as the company’s most powerful workstation graphics card back in 2012, putting two of the same Tahiti dies found in the Radeon HD 7950 on one Crossfire board. The world has long since moved on, but YouTube channel RandomGaminginHD found a used S10000 for sale and set out to see how powerful this card is in 2025 for gaming. Spoiler alert: this GPU was able to play Arc Raiders above 30 FPS, but using just one of its two GPUs.
Getting the S10000 gaming-ready, particularly to get both GPUs to cooperate in supported games, was no easy task. The GPU enthusiast had to make several changes to get the card to work at all with newer titles due to its age. This included using Windows 10 instead of Windows 11, and BIOS flashing the card so the S10000 would function with newer AMD Adrenalin drivers.
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First, running the GPU out of the box on Windows 10, RandomGaminginHD discovered several weird quirks with the card. The S10000 only supports up to FirePro driver version 17.4 and not AMD’s Adrenalin counterpart, which is critical for getting game optimizations. Under GPU-Z, the card shows up under two distinct names, S10000 and W9000 X2.
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After researching the GPU’s name, RandomGaminginHD discovered that the two model names are, in fact, the same GPU, only the W9000 X2 was never released under that name. In fact, the enthusiast discovered that AMD had slapped a “S10000” sticker over a “W9000 X2” badge on his particular card, suggesting AMD renamed the graphics card from W9000 X2 to S10000 just before the product’s release in November 2012.