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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB vs NVIDIA Tesla P40

For running models locally, priced in the UK. At 8k context the first runs 16 models fully in memory, the second 28.

In short

The NVIDIA Tesla P40 has more memory for models: 24 GB against 16 GB. At 8k context the NVIDIA Tesla P40 runs 28 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB 16; only the NVIDIA Tesla P40 holds Qwen 3.8 27B. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is about 1.3× as fast as the NVIDIA Tesla P40 (estimated, median across models). In the UK the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB costs £520 at eBay and the NVIDIA Tesla P40 £1,856 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is £1,336 cheaper.

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB

£520

eBay

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NVIDIA Tesla P40

£1,856

Amazon

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GBNVIDIA Tesla P40
GPUGeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GBTesla P40
Memory16 GB GDDR724 GB GDDR5
Memory bus128-bit384-bit
Memory bandwidth448 GB/s346 GB/s
FP16 compute47 TFLOPS11.8 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDACUDA
Board power180 W250 W
PCIe generationGen 5Gen 3
PCIe lanesx8x16

What each runs

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

ModelNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GBNVIDIA Tesla P40
Qwen 3.8 27Boffload10tok/sUD-Q6_K
Qwen 3.6 27Boffload9tok/sQ6_K
Gemma 4 31Boffload9tok/sQ5_K_M
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3Boffload62tok/sUD-Q4_K_M
Qwen 3.5 27Boffload9tok/sQ6_K
Gemma 4 26B-A4Boffload32tok/sUD-Q6_K
Devstral Small 2 24B18tok/sQ4_K_M10tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3Boffload62tok/sQ4_K_M
GLM 4.7 Flashoffload32tok/sQ5_K_M
gpt-oss 20B63tok/sMXFP449tok/sMXFP4
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffload44tok/sQ5_K_M
Qwen3 32Boffload10tok/sQ4_K_M
Gemma 4 12B21tok/sQ8_016tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B28tok/sQ8_022tok/sQ8_0
Mistral Small 3.2 24B18tok/sQ4_K_M10tok/sQ6_K
Gemma 3 27Boffload9tok/sQ6_K
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Boffload10tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen3 14B21tok/sQ6_K13tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 14B18tok/sQ8_014tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B28tok/sQ8_022tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8B28tok/sQ8_022tok/sQ8_0
Phi-4 14B20tok/sQ6_K12tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 4B58tok/sQ8_045tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B27tok/sQ8_021tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8B26tok/sQ8_020tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B33tok/sQ8_025tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B114tok/sQ8_088tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B36tok/sQ6_K28tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Coder Nextwon't runoffload
Mistral Small 4 119Boffloadoffload
GLM 4.5 Airwon't runoffload
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3Bwon't runoffload
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffloadoffload
Llama 3.3 70Bwon't runoffload
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
gpt-oss 120Bwon't runwon't run

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB or the NVIDIA Tesla P40?
Choose the NVIDIA Tesla P40 to run bigger models. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB for speed. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB or the NVIDIA Tesla P40?
At 8k context the NVIDIA Tesla P40 runs 28 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB 16; only the NVIDIA Tesla P40 holds Qwen 3.8 27B.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB or the NVIDIA Tesla P40?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is about 1.3× as fast as the NVIDIA Tesla P40 (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB and the NVIDIA Tesla P40?
In the UK the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB costs £520 at eBay and the NVIDIA Tesla P40 £1,856 at Amazon: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is £1,336 cheaper.

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