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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super vs NVIDIA Tesla P40

For running models locally, priced in the UK. At 128k context the first runs 20 models fully in memory, the second 27.

In short

The NVIDIA Tesla P40 has more memory for models: 24 GB against 16 GB. At 128k context the NVIDIA Tesla P40 runs 27 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 20; only the NVIDIA Tesla P40 holds Gemma 4 26B-A4B. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super is about 2.1× as fast as the NVIDIA Tesla P40 (estimated, median across models). In the UK the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super costs £1,604 at Amazon and the NVIDIA Tesla P40 £1,838 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super is £233 cheaper.

Updated . Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super

£1,604

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NVIDIA Tesla P40

£1,838

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SuperNVIDIA Tesla P40
GPUGeForce RTX 4080 SuperTesla P40
Memory16 GB GDDR6X24 GB GDDR5
Memory bus256-bit384-bit
Memory bandwidth736 GB/s346 GB/s
FP16 compute104 TFLOPS11.8 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDACUDA
Board power320 W250 W
PCIe generationGen 4Gen 3
PCIe lanesx16x16

What each runs

Estimated decode speed with the most precise quant that fits each one est.

ModelNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SuperNVIDIA Tesla P40
Gemma 4 26B-A4Boffload22tok/sQ5_K_M
gpt-oss 20B49tok/sQ4_K_M23tok/sMXFP4
Gemma 4 12B37tok/sQ6_K14tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B33tok/sQ8_016tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 4B52tok/sQ8_024tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8Boffload9tok/sQ4_K_M
Gemma 4 E4B38tok/sQ8_018tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B38tok/sUD-Q6_K17tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8Boffload9tok/sQ5_K_M
Qwen2.5 0.5B213tok/sQ8_0100tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 0.8B187tok/sQ8_088tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 2B149tok/sQ5_K_M70tok/sQ5_K_M
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B81tok/sQ8_038tok/sQ8_0
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking60tok/sQ8_028tok/sQ8_0
MiniCPM5 2B55tok/sQ8_026tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3B Thinking 250646tok/sQ4_K_M18tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 2.6B42tok/sQ8_020tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 VL 3B42tok/sQ8_020tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.6V Flash40tok/sQ4_K_M14tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4 9B 041434tok/smlx-5bit16tok/smlx-5bit
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B33tok/sQ6_K14tok/sQ8_0
granite vision 4.1 4b32tok/sQ8_015tok/sQ8_0
granite 4.2 3b31tok/sQ8_015tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3Boffload18tok/smlx-8bit
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinkingoffload13tok/smlx-8bit
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8Boffload9tok/sQ5_K_M
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512offload9tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen 3.8 27Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Bwon't runoffload
Qwen 3.6 27Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 31Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 4 119Bwon't runoffload
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 27Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3Boffloadoffload
GLM 4.7 Flashoffloadoffload
Devstral Small 2 24Boffloadoffload
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Gemma 3 27Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 3.2 24Boffloadoffload
Ministral 3 14Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 14Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 8Boffloadoffload
Phi-4 14Boffloadoffload
Granite 4.2 8Boffloadoffload
LFM2.5 24B A2Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14Boffloadoffload
Devstral Small 2507offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2506offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2507offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2509offloadoffload
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon't runwon't run
GLM 5.3 Flashwon't runwon't run
Qwen 3.8 Flash Nextwon't runwon't run
MiniMax M2.7won't runwon't run
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12Bwon't runwon't run
Qwen3 Coder Nextwon't runwon't run
gpt-oss 120Bwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.5 Airwon't runwon't run
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3Bwon't runwon't run
Qwen3 32Bwon't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Bwon't runwon't run
Llama 3.3 70Bwon't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1won't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 0528won't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70Bwon't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 Zerowon't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3 0324won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.1won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.1 Terminuswon't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.2won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Expwon't runwon't run
Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512won't runwon't run
GLM 4.5Vwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.6won't runwon't run
GLM 4.6Vwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.7won't runwon't run
GLM 5.1won't runwon't run
GLM 5.2won't runwon't run
GLM 5.3won't runwon't run
Kimi Dev 72Bwon't runwon't run
Kimi K2won't runwon't run
Kimi K2 Instruct 0905won't runwon't run
Kimi K2 Thinkingwon't runwon't run
Kimi K2.5won't runwon't run
MiniMax M2won't runwon't run
MiniMax M2.1won't runwon't run
MiniMax M2.5won't runwon't run
MiniMax M3won't runwon't run
Mistral Medium 3.5 128Bwon't runwon't run
granite 4.2 30bwon't runwon't run

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super or the NVIDIA Tesla P40?
Choose the NVIDIA Tesla P40 to run bigger models. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super for speed. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super or the NVIDIA Tesla P40?
At 128k context the NVIDIA Tesla P40 runs 27 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 20; only the NVIDIA Tesla P40 holds Gemma 4 26B-A4B.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super or the NVIDIA Tesla P40?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super is about 2.1× as fast as the NVIDIA Tesla P40 (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super and the NVIDIA Tesla P40?
In the UK the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super costs £1,604 at Amazon and the NVIDIA Tesla P40 £1,838 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super is £233 cheaper.

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