Workstation vs Gaming GPUs

[ThePlayerKyle]

Now i know Workstation GPUs aren't meant for gaming but the question is are their more efficient than Gaming GPUs for Gaming?

 

[Computersloeber]

They are artificiality bottlenecked to under-perform in games. They have the same GPU cores but the design differs a bit from gaming GPU's
If you want to game go for gaming GPU's

 

[Eduello]

Ignore this answer.

 

[ezskills]

The difference is really all in the drivers. A Quadro uses drivers that are heavily designed to produce high-quality, accurate output; a Gaming Gpu uses drivers that are optimized to run quickly, at the cost of not producing pixel-perfect output. In gaming, the graphical difference is unnoticeable - it's only really visible in CAD applications and high-quality animation rendering. Workstation drivers also frequently optimize much more for OpenGL, while gaming cards are slightly biased towards Direct3D.

There are sometimes hardware differences. Historically, workstation cards had more memory (usually 512mb/1gb when gamer cards had 256mb/512mb). Some also support an obscure feature called an "external clock signal", which can be used to make all the computers in a room run at exactly the same clock frequency and phase - useful for filming a room full of computers, since you could have the camera driven by the same clock so you can actually see CRT monitors' output.

So bottom line is, it isnt cheap and it was never really built or programmed for gaming.