Radeon Pro W5500X vs Tesla M1060

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated292
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data20.38
Power efficiencyno data10.46
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameGT200BNavi 14
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date1 June 2008 (16 years ago)11 December 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,699 $599

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores2401536
Core clock speed610 MHz1187 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1757 MHz
Number of transistors1,400 million6,400 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)188 Watt125 Watt
Texture fill rate48.80168.7
Floating-point processing power0.6221 TFLOPS5.398 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs8096

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 4.0 x8
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinNone

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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB8 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth102.4 GB/s224.0 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 outputs2x HDMI 2.0b
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.06.7
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.1
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA1.3-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2008 11 December 2019
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 188 Watt 125 Watt

Pro W5500X has an age advantage of 11 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 685.7% more advanced lithography process, and 50.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla M1060 and Radeon Pro W5500X. We've got no test results to judge.


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