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Why don't hardcore gamers purchase professional graphic station cards?

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Yeah, these cards are expensive - I saw a PCI-e nVidia workstation card with 512 onboard ram for over $1,700 on Pricewatch, but assuming that price is no object...

Is it safe to assume that this is what CG designers like Pixar, and game designers like Valve use to actually create the graphically demanding movies and games? If so, why don't the true hardcore gamers use cards such as the Quadro FX 4400 to push their pixels? If I'm correct and the games are designed and tested using thes cards, then wouldn't they run games many times faster than X850XT's and dual 6800 Ultras?

 
Professional cards are optimizes for professional applications, thus they don't perform so well in games compared to consumer cards of the same caliber.
 
Originally posted by: cubby1223
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perfect guide to answer ur question...they are just not designed to play games but professional software instead just like how the normal GPUs are not designed for working with professional software
 
Yes, this has always been the case.

I remember when I bought a surplus Diamond FireGL PCI card for my P2/400 back in the day. OpenGL games would run well, but they didn't support a lot of the texture features that the games were after at the time. When I threw AutoCAD and 3DStudio at the card, it just screamed.
 
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