fail. the difference between workstation and gamer computer is graphics driver.
5 years ago, we were able to fool the drivers installer, and use quadro drivers with gforce. the performance gap was EXACTLY wiped. a 200$ nvidia gforce had the GL perfs of a 3000$ quadro card.The same happend to ATI fireGL drivers...
since then , nvidia and ATI decided to overprotect their GL drivers with hardware trap.
the difference you spoke about disappeared long time ago, after the fall of SGI.
A workstation is a computer with a much more scaleable motherboard, with often more than one CPU slot, a MUCH higher RAM cap (often 100's of gigs of RAM), uses workstation CPU's (Xeon or Opteron), also the Xeon/Opteron CPU's allow utilization of ECC RAM, among other things...
Decked-out desktops can run you maybe $5,000 max, while Decked-out workstations can easily exceed $10,000.
Desktops is computers you can use alltime. Workstations is just computers you use for heavy editing of videos or pictures or music there is no idea to get a workstation if you just play games or edit you own videos and pistures or you own music
There's no such thing as a "workstation" there are just many different desktops with specific configurations. Workstation is just a marketing term for a desktop with a specific set of parts. AMD and nVidia make editing-oriented graphics cards that have optimized drivers for color accuracy and anti-aliasing; Intel makes business-oriented processors, the list goes on.
Only comparing them at a component level makes any sense.
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@sixthcrusifix Respectfully disagree. A workstation is a system assigned to one specific (or set of) task. It performs these tasks throughout the day, generally being operated by people on a shift rotation. Even during the night they're usually left on crunching data in order to render things out or run calculations or whatever it is the machine has been dedicated to do. It's technically a desktop yes, but the term workstation is as much a practical term as a marketing term.
why are workstations so much faster (at CAD apps) because don't they use the same architecture for both the CPU and GPU (though GPU drivers are different)?
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@toontent Workstation components usually have very specialised drivers written for them that allow them to squeeze out every last drop of possible performance. You can get drivers written JUST to take advantage and be optimised for a SINGLE application or task, which puts all available power into completing it. They're run on server architecture because they're designed to be massively reliable and stable. They can run full load for years (in theory) before they fail. "Desktops" can't do this/
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gl33k81 2 weeks ago
fail. the difference between workstation and gamer computer is graphics driver.
5 years ago, we were able to fool the drivers installer, and use quadro drivers with gforce. the performance gap was EXACTLY wiped. a 200$ nvidia gforce had the GL perfs of a 3000$ quadro card.The same happend to ATI fireGL drivers...
since then , nvidia and ATI decided to overprotect their GL drivers with hardware trap.
the difference you spoke about disappeared long time ago, after the fall of SGI.
gl33k81 2 weeks ago
workstations are desktops based for 3d programs and rendering. these suck at gaming.
desktops are better for gaming but are slow for rendering.
if you are a gamer, dont spent 6000 on a quadro a cheap ass looks better in games
FoodOnCrack 3 months ago
fail video
jeystonemusic 7 months ago
@ jpmarkee,
hi, I running trading platform call "Multichart" , do you think it's better to use workstation or high-end desktop ?
pls advice, tq :)
MrAvatar9999 7 months ago
A workstation is a computer with a much more scaleable motherboard, with often more than one CPU slot, a MUCH higher RAM cap (often 100's of gigs of RAM), uses workstation CPU's (Xeon or Opteron), also the Xeon/Opteron CPU's allow utilization of ECC RAM, among other things...
Decked-out desktops can run you maybe $5,000 max, while Decked-out workstations can easily exceed $10,000.
richieblac 7 months ago
@richieblac
not a lot of workstation need a 2 or more CPU motherboard. to make rendering, rendering farm is better, cheaper, more scalable...
you are right about RAM cap and ECC though.
gl33k81 2 weeks ago
Desktops is computers you can use alltime. Workstations is just computers you use for heavy editing of videos or pictures or music there is no idea to get a workstation if you just play games or edit you own videos and pistures or you own music
dennisjonkristensen 10 months ago
There's no such thing as a "workstation" there are just many different desktops with specific configurations. Workstation is just a marketing term for a desktop with a specific set of parts. AMD and nVidia make editing-oriented graphics cards that have optimized drivers for color accuracy and anti-aliasing; Intel makes business-oriented processors, the list goes on.
Only comparing them at a component level makes any sense.
sixthcrusifix 11 months ago 7
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@sixthcrusifix Respectfully disagree. A workstation is a system assigned to one specific (or set of) task. It performs these tasks throughout the day, generally being operated by people on a shift rotation. Even during the night they're usually left on crunching data in order to render things out or run calculations or whatever it is the machine has been dedicated to do. It's technically a desktop yes, but the term workstation is as much a practical term as a marketing term.
TalesOfWar 8 months ago
from what i see workstations are just high end gaming computers with a different video card.
megamindstorm101 11 months ago 3
why are workstations so much faster (at CAD apps) because don't they use the same architecture for both the CPU and GPU (though GPU drivers are different)?
toontent 1 year ago
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@toontent Workstation components usually have very specialised drivers written for them that allow them to squeeze out every last drop of possible performance. You can get drivers written JUST to take advantage and be optimised for a SINGLE application or task, which puts all available power into completing it. They're run on server architecture because they're designed to be massively reliable and stable. They can run full load for years (in theory) before they fail. "Desktops" can't do this/
TalesOfWar 8 months ago
@toontent
you got the point. GL drivers man, GL drivers ...
gl33k81 2 weeks ago