News Chinese GPU maker reveals new workstation GPU for the domestic market — Moore Threads MTT X300 uses the same hardware as the gaming-focused MTT S80

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The X300 is Moore Threads’ newest professional GPU, though we’ve seen the underlying hardware before.

Chinese GPU maker reveals new workstation GPU for the domestic market — Moore Threads MTT X300 uses the same hardware as the gaming-focused MTT S80 : Read more

 

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At the very least, the X300 would be a pointless product if it didn’t have any special drivers since it would otherwise be identical to the S80.

Not entirely pointless. For one thing, workstation cards tend to have much better warranties (but also reduced clocks & power requirements). Another differentiator is that they tend to have PCIe power connectors on the short edge, so you can fit them in a 3U case and fit neatly into one or two slot widths, so you can pack multiple of them in like sardines.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, software vendors will validate their software on workstation GPUs. If you have a problem with their software and you're not using a supported hardware configuration, the first (and probably only thing) their customer support reps will tell you is that you should be using supported hardware. For a (usually smaller) software vendor, they don't want to test every possible hardware configuration under the sun, and they also don't want to troubleshoot a malfunction that turns out to be some flaky computations on a gaming GPU that's heavily overclocked or whatever.