NVIDIA Tesla C1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT Dual

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla C1060 and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT Dual 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: Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla C1060

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 74% higher core clock speed: 610 MHz vs 350 MHz
  • Around 91% higher texture fill rate: 48.8 GTexel / s vs 2x 5.6 GTexel / s billion / sec
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 130 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2x 256 MB
  • Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Launch date 9 April 2009 vs 8 June 2004
Core clock speed 610 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate 48.8 GTexel / s vs 2x 5.6 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 2x 256 MB
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla C1060
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT Dual

Name NVIDIA Tesla C1060 NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT Dual
Geekbench - OpenCL 18689

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Tesla C1060 NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT Dual

Essentials

Architecture Tesla 2.0 Curie
Code name GT200B NV40 A1
Launch date 9 April 2009 8 June 2004
Place in performance rating 1131 not rated
Type Workstation Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 610 MHz 350 MHz
Floating-point performance 622.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 130 nm
Pipelines 240
Texture fill rate 48.8 GTexel / s 2x 5.6 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 188 Watt
Transistor count 1,400 million 222 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 10.0 9.0c
OpenGL 3.3 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2x 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 102.4 GB / s 2x 32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 512 Bit 2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3