NVIDIA Tesla C1060 Computing Processor
The NVIDIA Tesla C1060 transforms a workstation into a high-performance computer that can dramatically outperform a small cluster. This gives technical professionals a dedicated computing resource at their desk-side that is much faster and more energy-efficient than a shared cluster in the data center. The Tesla C1060 is based on the massively parallel, many-core Tesla processor, which is coupled with the standard CUDA C programming environment to simplify many-core programming. The Tesla C1060 allows you to keep pace with the increasing demands of the toughest computing challenges including drug research, oil and gas exploration, and computational finance and its many-core architecture meets the computational demands of applications whose complexity has outstripped the CPU’s ability to solve them. This NVIDIA HPC Computing Processor uses the only C language environment that unlocks the many-core processing power of GPUs to solve the world’s most computationally-intensive challenges. Capable of 933 GFLOPs/s of processing performance puts it near the performance of small supercomputers and 4 GB of GDDR3 memory onboard gives you a total bandwidth of 102 GB/s.
Important Note: This board is NOT a video card. It has no display outputs for connecting a monitor. It is a processor that offloads the computation from the computer’s CPU. Also note that for operation under Windows XP, this board requires a NVIDIA graphics display board or motherboard NVIDIA graphics. This is not a requirement for Linux operation.
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Specifications
Lifestyle:
GPU Computing
Chipset:
NVIDIA Tesla
GPU Series:
NVIDIA Tesla
GPU/VPU:
NVIDIA Tesla C1060
Video Memory:
4 GB
Memory Type:
GDDR3
Memory Interface:
512-bit
Stream Processors:
240
Core Clock:
1296 MHz
Memory Clock:
800 MHz
Memory Bandwidth:
102.0 GB/sec.
Interface Type:
PCI Express 2.0
Interface Speed:
x16
Overclocked:
No
APIs:
NVIDIA CUDA
Low Profile:
No
Cooling Type:
Fan
Heatsink
Detailed Features
Features
Form Factor:
10.5" x 4.376", Dual Slot
Single Precision floating point performance:
933 GFlops
Double Precision floating point performance:
78 GFlops
Floating Point Precision:
IEEE 754 single & double precision floating
point
Max Power Consumption:
<200 W peak, 160 W typical
Auxiliary Power Connectors:
Two 6-pin or one 8-pin
Thermal Solution:
Active fan sink
Programming environment:
C(CUDA)
A Closer Look
Customer Reviews and Rating
Customer Rating:
4.7
Customer Reviews:
5
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Value
4.6
Features
4.2
Quality
5.0
Performance
4.8
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Reviewer:
SARAH on
Nov 19, 2009 Customer Rating:
4.0
Value
5.0
Features
1.0
Quality
5.0
Performance
5.0
I bought one of these to watch Netflix on but it doesn't seem to be functioning. There's nowhere to plug in the hmdi thing, for a start. I have ordered a power supply (which has a rebate on it) separately to fit in the hole at the top. Having said that, it is very solidly built and has gigaflops to spare. I love the little goldy keyboard at the bottom, but I think you heed a stylus to play it right. I have sent away for a proper printed manual and eagerly await that in my mail, but it is nearly winter here so it may be a while. Nevertheless, it was a great purchase and looks really tops on the TV sideboard beside the LCT flat screen. A big plus for Tigerdirect; great ebayer, would buy again!!!!
The power house
Reviewer:
hpearson on
Nov 14, 2009 Customer Rating:
5.0
Value
5.0
Features
5.0
Quality
5.0
Performance
5.0
This is simply the best there is. a mighty power house of all the ages, a test of power rivaling the gods. No mere mortal can purchase such an relic, only through natural selection could one earn its worthiness to look upon. It is said it needs a human sacrifice just to insert the card.
Awesome
Reviewer:
joe on
Nov 09, 2009 Customer Rating:
4.8
Value
4.0
Features
5.0
Quality
5.0
Performance
5.0
I laugh at the people who bought this just to improve graphics on their computer. This doesn't belong in the video card section! It's not designed to make graphics look pretty! But nonetheless, how much power this thing has is incredible! Turns your desktop into the equivalent of a small server farm in terms of processing speed.
good card. but
Reviewer:
joseph on
Oct 22, 2009 Customer Rating:
4.5
Value
4.0
Features
5.0
Quality
5.0
Performance
4.0
i bought this card, thought it would be a good idea to updrade to the new nvdia Gt300. when i got it, i saw that i dindt have video outputs. i realized this new arcitecture outputs the video through the motherboard video out connector. (i have an asus am3 mobo) so i hooked it up in my new windows 1.7 system, tried a few benchmarks, like Crisis. i do not get much more FPS! i dont no why, i got the latest drivers, perhaps my e8300 is the bottleneck. other than that, good card.
Something you need to have!
Reviewer:
Kritesh on
Oct 07, 2009 Customer Rating:
5.0
Value
5.0
Features
5.0
Quality
5.0
Performance
5.0
I just bought 3 of these bad boys off the nvidia site for my home pc and I got to say Crysis is looking beautiful(Joke). Play it on very high all settings and I have a super computer. Nvidia you did it again and you are the greatest. If you have a high budget i suggest purchasing this card, but if you dont save up.
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PCI
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