Tesla C1060 vs Quadro CX

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking833not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.04no data
Power efficiency1.14no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameGT200BGT200B
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date11 November 2008 (16 years ago)9 April 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,999 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores192240
Core clock speed602 MHz610 MHz
Number of transistors1,400 million1,400 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt188 Watt
Texture fill rate38.5348.80
Floating-point processing power0.4623 TFLOPS0.6221 TFLOPS
ROPs2432
TMUs6480

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1536 MB4 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit512 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth76.8 GB/s102.4 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.04.0
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.31.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 November 2008 9 April 2009
Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB 4 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 188 Watt

Quadro CX has 25.3% lower power consumption.

Tesla C1060, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 months, and a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Quadro CX and Tesla C1060. We've got no test results to judge.


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