As a kind of high-performance computer designed and developed for users in the professional field, the workstation has powerful data operation, graphics and image processing capabilities, and is designed and developed to meet the professional fields such as engineering design, animation production, scientific research, software development, financial management, information services, simulation and so on. It is often misunderstood by some consumers because of its high selling price. Especially for some mobile entry-level workstations, from the perspective of parameters alone, there seems to be no advantage over high-performance games in the consumer field, but the price is much higher than the latter.
This is because the price of the workstation as a commercial field product includes not only its hardware cost, but also higher specifications of after-sales and hardware assurance services, such as 7x24 hours, next-day door-to-door, etc., which are often not available in ordinary consumer-level PCs. Even if you only talk about hardware costs, workstations are not too premium IQ tax products, such as ECC memory, professional graphics cards, ISV certification, military standard specifications of the fuselage, etc., are the actual improvement of a penny.
Today we will talk about professional graphics cards, as one of the three major pieces on the PC, many people attach great importance to its performance, but the model of professional graphics card is often not as well-known as the consumer level, so the Internet often asks "XX professional graphics card performance is equivalent to 20 series or 30 series which model.". This kind of answer often starts from the architecture and specifications of graphics cards, but with the rapid upgrading of consumer graphics cards, such analogies are actually not applicable to most products, because simple specifications do not reflect the true skills of professional graphics cards.
Just as the so-called "art industry has a specialty", professional graphics cards and game graphics cards have their own areas of expertise, but at the same time there is an intersection, after all, they are the same family and the same origin. Today we will talk about the advantages of professional graphics cards over game graphics cards through intuitive comparison.
Taking the current mainstream NVIDIA graphics cards as an example, after its professional graphics cards have been streamlined, the latest models have been simplified to the NVIDIA RTX A series and the T series without RTX. We selected a newly launched 99 2022 mobile workstation and a brand of full blood 3060 game book, both with the cpu of the 45W 12th generation Core i7-12700H, and the GPUs were NVIDIA T600 4GB professional graphics and NVIDIA 3060 Laptop 6GB.
From the specification point of view alone, the T600 Laptop only has 896 sets of stream processors, the memory bit width is only 128 bits, and also uses the previous generation of Turing architecture, and the familiar 3060 Laptop is the latest ampere architecture, 8nm process, 3840 groups of stream processors, memory width of 192 bits. The only close place between the two may be that they both use GDDR6 high-speed video memory, even so, the 3060 Laptop is still 2GB more than the T600 Laptop, which can be said to be not a level of product at all.
However, in the case of such a "total backwardness", in the most authoritative and popular comprehensive test software SPECviewperf 2020 in the field of graphics workstations, T600 Laptop and 3060 Latptop were tied in tests such as medical-03 and energy-03, and in software such as snx-04, it was directly crushed.
Such a gap is still based on the difference between the two specifications by several times, it is conceivable that even the big brothers of 3060, 3070 and 3080, may not be able to run the general score of the T600 Laptop.
On the one hand, this is because these professional graphics software often use the OpenGL interface, and NVIDIA's game graphics drivers have strict restrictions on this part of the performance, while for professional graphics cards, this part of the performance is completely open. On the other hand, it can be seen through the official website of NVIDIA that its professional graphics products have extensive support for the software of the following manufacturers, and all provide GPU acceleration.
This is also why the mobile workstation equipped with professional graphics card exerts stronger performance in the exact same situation as the CPU, memory, etc. of the two machines.
It seems that the phrase "don't challenge others with your hobbies" also applies to the PC field, and specifications alone cannot fully judge the performance of a machine. However, choosing the right PC product, in the final analysis, is still from their own actual needs, if you are only used for some video editing and rendering, you can buy high-performance game books, with drivers like NVIDIA Studio to use, but if you simply need a design, engineering, manufacturing professional, VR virtual reality, architectural engineering, animation modeling effects, video editing, AI robot intelligence and other professional areas of work, then the stability is stronger, A more applicable professional workstation is a better choice.
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