Recently, some friends have asked the editor what is the difference between Win11 Professional Edition and Professional Workstation Edition? Here is the relevant content about the difference between Win11 Professional Edition and Professional Workstation Edition. Friends who need it can come and learn more. .
1. Hard drive scores soared by 180%
"Excellent performance mode" is a newly added mode in Win11 professional workstation version. In layman's terms, "excellent performance mode" It allows the system to dynamically optimize performance and quickly achieve the highest performance by identifying the workload of the CPU and GPU.
Workstation version comes with “Excellent Performance” mode
This is the AS SSD installed on the same computer with Win11 PRO Professional Edition (turning on "High Performance" mode) and Win11 Professional Workstation Edition (turning on "Excellent Performance" mode). Benchmark score comparison. It can be seen that the difference in scores between the two versions is very obvious, among which "4K" and "4K-64K Random" are the two options with the biggest difference. These two sets of options correspond to the reading and writing of a large number of small and fragmented files in daily work.
Comparison of AS SSD Benchmark scores between two versions of Win11
Actual experience also confirms the running score. Under the same configuration and optimization conditions, the workstation version does not have a significant speed increase, but the connection between operations is smoother and the lag phenomenon is reduced a lot. There is a small detail here, that is, the CPU temperature of the workstation version seems to be slightly higher than that of the PRO version, but the difference is not very big. It should be that the workstation version is more efficient in resource allocation.
CPU temperature monitoring (workstation version)
2. Resilient File System (ReFS)
ReFS is a file management system similar to NTFS. Compared with NTFS, ReFS can better resist data corruption. This is due to a more efficient file verification mechanism in ReFS. By increasing the proportion of verification information, when encountering irreparable bad blocks, ReFS can automatically repair them through verification information with a high probability. This feature also makes ReFS more suitable for processing data-type materials.
Resilient file system ReFS
3. High-speed file sharing (SMB Direct)
SMB Direct is a feature introduced from Windows Server. SMB The biggest attraction of Direct is that it can complete data transmission at extremely high speeds with the help of a network adapter that supports RDMA (Remote Direct Data Access, mainly to solve the problem of server data delay in network transmission). At the same time, it has another advantage, which is SMB Direct's CPU usage is extremely low.
4. Extended hardware support
Win11 Workstation Edition is the most advanced version of Win11, and the hardware configurations it supports are staggering.
For example, Win11 Professional Edition only supports 2 CPUs and up to 2TB of memory per system, but Win11 Workstation Edition can support 4 CPUs and up to 6TB of memory.
In addition, Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors are also included. Although this basically has nothing to do with us, it is enough to indicate the future expansion space of the workstation version.
Summarize
Overall, the Win11 workstation version is a very good version. On the premise of integrating a large number of functions, the performance does not decrease but increases. After the "Excellent Performance Mode" is forced to be turned on in the PRO professional version, it is far less obvious than the workstation version, which may also have something to do with the overall resource mobilization. In addition, another difference from the PRO professional version is that the workstation version is very clean after installation, and there are still all kinds of messy ads, without any.
The above is all the differences between the Win11 Professional Edition and the Professional Workstation Edition brought to you by the editor. I hope it can help you.
