NVIDIA Tesla C1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla C1060 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 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, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA Tesla C1060

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla C1060

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
2.7x more core clock speed: 610 MHz vs 230 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 140 nm
64x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 64 MB
8x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 200 MHz

Launch date	9 April 2009 vs 17 March 2004
Core clock speed	610 MHz vs 230 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 140 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 200 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

18.9x more texture fill rate: 920 MTexel / s vs 48.8 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	920 MTexel / s vs 48.8 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla C1060
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

Name	NVIDIA Tesla C1060	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
Geekbench - OpenCL	18689
PassMark - G3D Mark		8
PassMark - G2D Mark		152

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla C1060	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Rankine
Code name	GT200B	NV34 B1
Launch date	9 April 2009	17 March 2004
Place in performance rating	1131	1132
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$36.99
Price now		$36.99
Value for money (0-100)		0.30
Technical info
Core clock speed	610 MHz	230 MHz
Floating-point performance	622.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	140 nm
Pipelines	240
Texture fill rate	48.8 GTexel / s	920 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	188 Watt
Transistor count	1,400 million	45 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	267 mm	152 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0a
OpenGL	3.3	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	102.4 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	512 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR