Why can't I play games on a workstation GPU?

Why can't I play games on a workstation GPU?

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Are there open source drivers for these cards, even?

They are cheap as hell and I might get one.

You can, the performance is just worse because the drivers are optimized for different workloads.

Because the GPU mainframe kernel is different for outputting high tech graphics, instead of complex computations

Like, a lot worse?

So it's a software issue.

It can be a lot worse, depends on the specific operations the GPU is doing. Video games are complex workloads in terms of what they ask a GPU to do and how often it changes. They do a lot of very different things and once and change very rapidly.

You can, just for a lot less comparative performance than the game-marketed GPUs of that gen. I still get mileage out of the W520 Quadro, for example

It looks like the chipsets are very much the same to regular consumer cards. At least for quadro cards, anyways.

Wonder if a little bios mod can make it work with regular drivers.

Thats a big maybe. Its been the case in the past that consumer cards could be flashed to pro versions, but I'm not sure if the reverse is true. I know that the boards themselves have some differences. AMD's recent pro cards have some additional modules on the boards, I forget what they're there for, but it can't be overlooked. I'm not sure if you could just BIOS flash that away and get a working card out of it.

>Thats a big maybe. Its been the case in the past that consumer cards could be flashed to pro versions,
You're a retard. Just because you can change the PCI IDs doesnt mean they're the same. For instance pro cards have significantly more cores which support double precision floating point math instead of single precision.

single slot quadros really jiggle my peanuts

im skeptical about drivers and shit

You can but workstation GPUs are designed to be accurate whereas consumer GPUs are designed to be fast. Sometimes you can crossflash but keep in mind you're risking bricking it.

>tfw sold my Vega 56 in January at the height of the crypto craze and upgraded to Vega FE made a $100 profit
It also mines much better than the 56 when I'm not gaymin

I use a quadro for gaming (got it free) and cost for coat its horse shit. But excluding that it runs GTA 60 fps mid-high graphics. But i could get 2 1080ti's for that price

You can.

Because quadros/firepros have specialised drivers for workstation applications aren't optimised for gaming.

Realistically "gaming" cards are perfectly fine for most workstation applications (Adobe premier doesn't give a fuck about the type of card), quadros/firepros are for companies that are running them in servers 24/7 and have a specialised need

No RGB

low clock rate, and unneeded high memory. it's like using a semi trailer to hop to your local grocery store.

With older chips you could even mod the vbios to recognize a Quadro as a Geforce and vice versa. They made it pretty much impossible with current ones though.

Workstation GPUs are usually ultimately just consumer cards with more memory and special drivers anymore, designed for different workloads that prioritize "correctness" over speed.

There's nothing stopping you from playing any games on it you would normally play on a consumer card, they're just a poorer value as new products and most of the people who tell you it's not possible are just morons regurgitating shit they heard from someone else originating in the '90s when most workstation-grade OpenGL cards actually weren't supported by a lot of consumer 3D applications.

They use the same libre drivers as the normal cards
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This

Not designed for it
Same reason why you can't use a knife as a screwdriver