Radeon Instinct MI25 vs Tesla C1060

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated389
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data2.97
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameGT200BVega 10
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date9 April 2009 (15 years ago)27 June 2017 (7 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2404096
Core clock speed610 MHz1400 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1500 MHz
Number of transistors1,400 million12,500 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)188 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate48.80384.0
Floating-point processing power0.6221 TFLOPS12.29 TFLOPS
ROPs3264
TMUs80256

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin2x 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 typeGDDR3HBM2
Maximum RAM amount4 GB16 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit2048 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz852 MHz
Memory bandwidth102.4 GB/s436.2 GB/s

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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.06.4
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.1.125
CUDA1.3-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 April 2009 27 June 2017
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 188 Watt 300 Watt

Tesla C1060 has 59.6% lower power consumption.

Instinct MI25, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 292.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Tesla C1060 and Radeon Instinct MI25. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA Tesla C1060
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