Tesla C1060 vs Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking656not rated
Place by popularity41not in top-100
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameVega Raven RidgeGT200B
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date26 October 2017 (6 years ago)9 April 2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores512240
Core clock speedno data610 MHz
Boost clock speed1200 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data1,400 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt188 Watt
Texture fill rateno data48.80
Floating-point performanceno data0.6221 gflops

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 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 typeno dataGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data4 GB
Memory bus widthno data512 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1600 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data102.4 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_111.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 October 2017 9 April 2009
Chip lithography 14 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 188 Watt

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) has an age advantage of 8 years, a 292.9% more advanced lithography process, and 1153.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) and Tesla C1060. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) is a notebook card while Tesla C1060 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
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