Professional AV rigs can get quite hairy. This video shows how one composer’s computer setup went from a pile of boxes and cables to a single rack mounted machine. I’ve set the playback point to where he shows the difference.
And he is just a single person. Imagine a company with 7-10 or more of those machines for both audio and video production.
Desktop “workstation” computers have become relics of a bygone age. Having one or two external graphics cards is really only relevant to gamers and hobbyist ML tinkerers. Actual model training is done on the cloud. The few people/organizations that actually use PCI cards in a desktop will be well served by the new Mac Pro.
https://youtu.be/xNrG2mwt4Uo?t=1995
And in this 4 minute video you can see all of his cards installed into his Mac Pro with nary a GPU in sight.
https://youtu.be/kIQINCWMd6I
And he is just a single person. Imagine a company with 7-10 or more of those machines for both audio and video production.
Desktop “workstation” computers have become relics of a bygone age. Having one or two external graphics cards is really only relevant to gamers and hobbyist ML tinkerers. Actual model training is done on the cloud. The few people/organizations that actually use PCI cards in a desktop will be well served by the new Mac Pro.