NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 vs NVIDIA Tesla C1060

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 and NVIDIA Tesla C1060 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

NVIDIA Tesla C1060

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 5 month(s) later
2.6x more core clock speed: 1566 MHz vs 610 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
Around 77% lower typical power consumption: 106 Watt vs 188 Watt
Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1804 (3608 data rate) MHz vs 1600 MHz

Launch date	13 September 2010 vs 9 April 2009
Core clock speed	1566 MHz vs 610 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	106 Watt vs 188 Watt
Memory clock speed	1804 (3608 data rate) MHz vs 1600 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla C1060

Around 94% higher texture fill rate: 48.8 GTexel / s vs 25.1 billion / sec
Around 25% higher pipelines: 240 vs 192
Around 3% better floating-point performance: 622.1 gflops vs 601.3 gflops
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
3.8x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 18689 vs 4907

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	48.8 GTexel / s vs 25.1 billion / sec
Pipelines	240 vs 192
Floating-point performance	622.1 gflops vs 601.3 gflops
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	18689 vs 4907

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
GPU 2: NVIDIA Tesla C1060

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

4907

18689

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450	NVIDIA Tesla C1060
PassMark - G3D Mark	1322
PassMark - G2D Mark	310
Geekbench - OpenCL	4907	18689
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	14.758
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	302.509
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.965
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	14.925
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	27.656
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2160
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3365
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3325
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2160
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3365
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3325
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450	NVIDIA Tesla C1060
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Tesla 2.0
Code name	GF106	GT200B
Launch date	13 September 2010	9 April 2009
Launch price (MSRP)	$129
Place in performance rating	1130	1131
Price now	$64.99
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Value for money (0-100)	26.46
Technical info
Core clock speed	1566 MHz	610 MHz
CUDA cores	192
Floating-point performance	601.3 gflops	622.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	100 °C
Pipelines	192	240
Texture fill rate	25.1 billion / sec	48.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	106 Watt	188 Watt
Transistor count	1,170 million	1,400 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI, Mini HDMITwo Dual Link DVI	No outputs
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0 x 16
Height	4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	8.25" (210 mm) (21 cm)	267 mm
SLI options	2-way
Supplementary power connectors	6-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.2	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	57.7 GB / s	102.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	512 Bit
Memory clock speed	1804 (3608 data rate) MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI