NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB vs NVIDIA Tesla P40
For running models locally, priced in India. At 32k context the first runs 13 models fully in memory, the second 26.
In short
The NVIDIA Tesla P40 has more memory for models: 24 GB against 16 GB. At 32k context the NVIDIA Tesla P40 runs 26 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB 13; only the NVIDIA Tesla P40 holds Qwen 3.8 27B. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA Tesla P40 is about 1.2× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB (estimated, median across models).
Updated . Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.
Specifications
| Spec | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB | NVIDIA Tesla P40 |
|---|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB | Tesla P40 |
| Memory | 16 GB GDDR6 | 24 GB GDDR5 |
| Memory bus | 128-bit | 384-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 288 GB/s | 346 GB/s |
| FP16 compute | 44 TFLOPS | 11.8 TFLOPS |
| Software | CUDA | CUDA |
| Board power | 165 W | 250 W |
| PCIe generation | Gen 4 | Gen 3 |
| PCIe lanes | x8 | x16 |
What each runs
Estimated decode speed with the most precise quant that fits each one est.
| Model | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB | NVIDIA Tesla P40 |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen 3.8 27B | offload | 10tok/sUD-Q5_K_M |
| Qwen 3.6 27B | offload | 10tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Gemma 4 31B | offload | 10tok/sQ4_K_M |
| Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B | offload | 50tok/sUD-Q4_K_M |
| Qwen 3.5 27B | offload | 10tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B | offload | 29tok/sUD-Q6_K |
| Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B | offload | 50tok/sQ4_K_M |
| GLM 4.7 Flash | offload | 24tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Devstral Small 2 24B | offload | 10tok/sQ5_K_M |
| gpt-oss 20B | 33tok/sMXFP4 | 40tok/sMXFP4 |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B | offload | 26tok/sQ4_K_M |
| Gemma 4 12B | 13tok/sQ8_0 | 16tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.5 9B | 17tok/sQ8_0 | 20tok/sQ8_0 |
| Gemma 3 27B | offload | 10tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B | offload | 10tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Qwen3 14B | 12tok/sQ4_K_M | 10tok/sQ8_0 |
| Ministral 3 14B | 12tok/sQ5_K_M | 11tok/sQ8_0 |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B | 13tok/sQ8_0 | 16tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3 8B | 13tok/sQ8_0 | 16tok/sQ8_0 |
| Phi-4 14B | offload | 10tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.5 4B | 32tok/sQ8_0 | 38tok/sQ8_0 |
| Ministral 3 8B | 13tok/sQ8_0 | 16tok/sQ8_0 |
| Granite 4.2 8B | 12tok/sQ8_0 | 15tok/sQ8_0 |
| Gemma 4 E4B | 20tok/sQ8_0 | 23tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 8B-A1B | 40tok/sQ8_0 | 48tok/sQ8_0 |
| Llama 3.1 8B | 16tok/sQ6_K | 20tok/sQ6_K |
| Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 Coder Next | won't run | offload |
| Mistral Small 4 119B | offload | offload |
| GLM 4.5 Air | won't run | offload |
| Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B | won't run | offload |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Kimi Linear 48B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 32B | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 5.3 Flash | won't run | won't run |
| Qwen 3.8 Flash Next | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M2.7 | won't run | won't run |
| Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B | won't run | won't run |
| gpt-oss 120B | won't run | won't run |
| Llama 3.3 70B | won't run | won't run |
Questions
- Which is better for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB or the NVIDIA Tesla P40?
- Choose the NVIDIA Tesla P40 to run bigger models. Choose the NVIDIA Tesla P40 for speed.
- Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB or the NVIDIA Tesla P40?
- At 32k context the NVIDIA Tesla P40 runs 26 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB 13; only the NVIDIA Tesla P40 holds Qwen 3.8 27B.
- Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB or the NVIDIA Tesla P40?
- On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA Tesla P40 is about 1.2× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB (estimated, median across models).
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