Alright, on this cool wednesday morning, i began to realise
that people who are building new computers have some queries about
their video cards.
When building computers, people tend to question: What is the
difference between a gaming card and a workstation video card?
And i am going to try my best to explain to you the
difference.
Firstly, you need to know that the gaming graphics cards are
designed to run your games at high
speed. For example, the 4870x2 runs at 750mhz, and they have
massive memory, like 2gb of GDDR5 running at high speed. The reason
for the gaming cards to be running at such a high speed is because
the want to be able to run your games with all the
details, gun shots, bullets, at high speed, ensuring good playback - which are
like mostly direct 3D, thus, if your core clock is slower, you are
not able to run the demanding games(like crysis) very well.
As it runs at high clock rates, it means that it runs hot(like
the 4870x2, 4870). The disadvantage of this is that if you casing does not have sufficient cooling, you
might have overheating problems - this will lead to artifacts and
damage to your graphics card, if things gets quite
serious, there might be crashing issues. On the
other hand, people who game a lot dun actually play their
games for eight hours at one go, maybe some
crazy people like me will run crysis or 3dmark06 w/o giving your
system a break.
Now, with comparison to the work station graphics card.
Workstation graphics card tend to have a slower clock rate. Now you might
wonder why you are paying a few thousand bucks to get sth that runs
slower. First and foremost, people who are using the workstation
graphics card are designing and
rendering their products after days in front of the 30inch
monitor, they dont want their graphics card to crash halfway. That
might be the reason behind the slower clock rate (less speed, less
heat, more stable). As those who do a lot of rendering will know,
you are dealing with OpenGL and other
kind of maths calculation while rendering. The workstation graphics card is built to deal
with those complicated maths calculation, while the gaming graphics
card deal with another type of maths.
Workstation graphics card are
designed to
design . Workstation graphics card can support
up till very very high resolution, like 3840x2400. You dun find
them on gaming cards. Another feature is the full screen
anti-aliasing.They also have the feature of being able to do the
more heavy work instead of the CPU doing it. This will means a
faster processing. WHich also says that your project is done
faster.
Overall, workstation are built for rendering, while gaming are
build to run all the directX10s and fanciful graphics at high
speed.
I will try to update more whn i come across more article on
this
Reference from:
Tigerdirectblog
Techspot