NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA Tesla C1060

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 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. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 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), Geekbench - OpenCL.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

NVIDIA Tesla C1060

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 27% higher core clock speed: 772 MHz vs 610 MHz
Around 1% higher texture fill rate: 49.41 GTexel / s vs 48.8 GTexel / s
2.1x more pipelines: 512 vs 240
2.5x better floating-point performance: 1,581 gflops vs 622.1 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
2.5x more memory clock speed: 4008 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Launch date	6 June 2011 vs 9 April 2009
Core clock speed	772 MHz vs 610 MHz
Texture fill rate	49.41 GTexel / s vs 48.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	512 vs 240
Floating-point performance	1,581 gflops vs 622.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Memory clock speed	4008 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla C1060

Around 30% lower typical power consumption: 188 Watt vs 244 Watt
2.7x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1536 MB

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	188 Watt vs 244 Watt
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1536 MB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2
GPU 2: NVIDIA Tesla C1060

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2	NVIDIA Tesla C1060
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	42.212
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	914.386
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	5.262
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	43.391
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	99.735
Geekbench - OpenCL		18689

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2	NVIDIA Tesla C1060
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Tesla 2.0
Code name	GF110	GT200B
Launch date	6 June 2011	9 April 2009
Launch price (MSRP)	$499
Place in performance rating	1148	1149
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	772 MHz	610 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,581 gflops	622.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	512	240
Texture fill rate	49.41 GTexel / s	48.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	244 Watt	188 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	1,400 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	267 mm	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1536 MB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	192.4 GB / s	102.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	512 Bit
Memory clock speed	4008 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3