For applications such as CAD, Video and Sound Editing, and other computationally and memory inventive applications, workstations are indeed a class apart from d

For applications such as CAD, Video and Sound Editing, and other computationally and memory inventive applications, workstations are indeed a class apart from desktops. For e.g., the disks are rated for high throughput, the RAM is ECC, the CPUs have higher L2/L3 cache. The Video cards and drivers are also often tuned for the use case. Such workstations are not the same as desktops used for gaming, everyday use, or even programming.