Playing Metro Exodus would be a big ask but at least you can run Photoshop without bringing everything to a grinding halt (unlike VirtualBox which falls on its face unless you completely disable 3D acceleration). It's the only desktop virtualization that can make Windows UI/UX work at close enough to native without PCI passthrough that the average user wouldn't notice a difference. In fairness, Workstation doesn't always need PCI passthrough because VMware's ace-in-the-hole has always been DirectX integration. VirtualBox isn't even in the race much less in the running.
In addition I don't see that capability anywhere in Workstation which means it's only happening in ESXi, and for someone who just wants to do gaming in a VM without abysmal framerates that's an awful lot of overhead. You can do it yourself for free or you can pay hundreds for someone else to do it. The difference is in how many buttons the end-user needs to push to make it happen. PCI passthrough works just as well in KVM as in VMware.
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