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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB vs NVIDIA Tesla P40

For running models locally, priced in the US. At 64k context the first runs 18 models fully in memory, the second 45.

In short

The NVIDIA Tesla P40 has more memory for models: 24 GB against 10 GB. At 64k context the NVIDIA Tesla P40 runs 45 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB 18; only the NVIDIA Tesla P40 holds Qwen 3.8 27B. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB is about 2.2× as fast as the NVIDIA Tesla P40 (estimated, median across models). In the US the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB costs $469 at Amazon and the NVIDIA Tesla P40 $405 at eBay: the NVIDIA Tesla P40 is $64 cheaper.

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB

$469

Amazon

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NVIDIA Tesla P40

$405

eBay

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GBNVIDIA Tesla P40
GPUGeForce RTX 3080 10GBTesla P40
Memory10 GB GDDR6X24 GB GDDR5
Memory bus320-bit384-bit
Memory bandwidth760 GB/s346 GB/s
FP16 compute59.5 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 3080 10GBNVIDIA Tesla P40
Qwen 3.8 27Boffload10tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen 3.6 27Boffload9tok/sQ5_K_M
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3Boffload39tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen 3.5 27Boffload10tok/sQ4_K_M
Gemma 4 26B-A4Boffload27tok/sUD-Q5_K_M
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3Boffload40tok/sQ4_K_M
GLM 4.7 Flashoffload20tok/sQ4_K_M
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffload49tok/sMXFP4
gpt-oss 20Boffload32tok/sMXFP4
Gemma 4 12B55tok/sQ4_K_M15tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B54tok/sQ5_K_M18tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 3 27Boffload10tok/sQ4_K_M
Ministral 3 14Boffload10tok/sQ6_K
Qwen3 14Boffload9tok/sQ6_K
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8Boffload12tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8Boffload12tok/sQ8_0
Phi-4 14Boffload9tok/sQ5_K_M
Qwen 3.5 4B71tok/sQ8_032tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8Boffload12tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8Boffload11tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B64tok/sQ5_K_M21tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B73tok/sMXFP430tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8Boffload14tok/sQ6_K
Qwen2.5 0.5B353tok/sQ8_0161tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 0.8B288tok/sQ8_0131tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 2B209tok/sQ5_K_M95tok/sQ5_K_M
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B125tok/sQ8_057tok/sQ8_0
MiniCPM5 2B86tok/sQ8_039tok/sQ8_0
Spark X2.5 4B86tok/smlx-4bit39tok/smlx-4bit
FrogNano 4B 260969tok/sQ8_032tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 2.6B68tok/sQ8_031tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 VL 3B68tok/sQ8_031tok/sQ8_0
granite vision 4.1 4b60tok/sQ5_K_M24tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B56tok/sQ4_K_M18tok/sQ8_0
granite 4.2 3b56tok/sQ6_K23tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.6V Flash53tok/sQ4_K_M17tok/sQ8_0
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinkingoffload35tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4 9B 0414offload20tok/smlx-5bit
Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506offload25tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3Boffload24tok/smlx-8bit
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8Boffload13tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512offload12tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinkingoffload15tok/smlx-8bit
LFM2.5 24B A2Boffload19tok/sQ5_K_M
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14Boffload9tok/sQ5_K_M
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Bwon't runoffload
Gemma 4 31Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Coder Nextwon't runoffload
Mistral Small 4 119Bwon't runoffload
Devstral Small 2 24Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3Bwon't runoffload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 32Bwon't runoffload
Mistral Small 3.2 24Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Bwon't runoffload
Devstral Small 2507offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2506offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2507offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2509offloadoffload
Qwen3.8 27B OBLITERATEDoffloadoffload
granite 4.2 30boffloadoffload
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
GLM 4.5 Airwon'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 4.5won'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 5won'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

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB or the NVIDIA Tesla P40?
Choose the NVIDIA Tesla P40 to run bigger models. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB for speed. Choose the NVIDIA Tesla P40 to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB or the NVIDIA Tesla P40?
At 64k context the NVIDIA Tesla P40 runs 45 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB 18; only the NVIDIA Tesla P40 holds Qwen 3.8 27B.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB or the NVIDIA Tesla P40?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB is about 2.2× as fast as the NVIDIA Tesla P40 (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB and the NVIDIA Tesla P40?
In the US the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB costs $469 at Amazon and the NVIDIA Tesla P40 $405 at eBay: the NVIDIA Tesla P40 is $64 cheaper.

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