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Fcchelsea136
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Oct 16, 2017
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Can someone explain what benefits the workstation GPUs offer over the gaming GPUs? Performance-wise this seems comparable to the 1060 mobile (6gb) but much more expensive. It has to have some benefit other than avoiding the shame of showing up with a gamer laptop (some of them are pretty discrete now anyway). I use my alienware 15 with 1060 for Lightroom and other photo/video editors all the time and it works well. What makes these so much more expensive?
etal
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Oct 16, 2017
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Fcchelsea136These days it's mostly the CAD design and 3D modeling programs that benefit from the quadro gpus. The quadro drivers have a better OpenGL implementation and some programs include features that are only enabled with a 'certified' gpu. Hardware wise this is exactly the same hardware as the GTX980 gaming gpu just with more memory, it's really only the drivers that make it different.
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