TH: How Well Do Workstation Graphics Cards Play Games?

[Dankk]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/workstation-graphics-card-gaming,3425.html

We often get folks wondering how desktop-oriented apps handle professional workloads, and today's experiment turned that question around. Now we know that workstation graphics cards are better for gaming than gaming cards are in professional tasks. Case in point: The FirePro W9000 nearly manages to keep up with AMD's Radeon HD 7970. The slightly lower performance of a workstation card in the latest shooter is a lot easier to live with than the massively lower performance you get from a GeForce or Radeon in a professional application.

Once again, the lesson here is that, in the workstation graphics segment, you don’t pay that massive premium for better hardware so much as you pay for the drivers and validation. This isn't something that should be held against AMD or Nvidia, even though we know they sell the same silicon into cards that cost a fraction as much. Driver development and optimization takes a lot of expensive time and work. Games are fun and all, but when you step aboard that new 787, you need to trust that the workstations responsible for every piece of it were 100% accurate.

 

[Skurge]

Funny he talks about the 787 that has been having numerous issues. Not the best example IMO.

 

[blastingcap]

This is like asking if a Xeon can play games as well as a Core i5/7....

 

[videogames101]

Funny he talks about the 787 that has been having numerous issues. Not the best example IMO.

Name any project as big as a 787, it will have the nearly the same number of issues.

Designing something like a 787 is hard, and even harder to get right.

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Anyways, confirms what we all knew, that Xeons and Workstation cards will play games just fine.

 

[Skurge]

Name any project as big as a 787, it will have the nearly the same number of issues.

Designing something like a 787 is hard, and even harder to get right.

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Anyways, confirms what we all knew, that Xeons and Workstation cards will play games just fine.

So many of them during actual service and not development?

 

[cmdrdredd]

So many of them during actual service and not development?

F-22 Raptor?