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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 vs NVIDIA Tesla P40

For running models locally, priced in the US. At 128k context the first runs 5 models fully in memory, the second 32.

In short

The NVIDIA Tesla P40 has more memory for models: 24 GB against 8 GB. At 128k context the NVIDIA Tesla P40 runs 32 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 5; only the NVIDIA Tesla P40 holds Gemma 4 26B-A4B. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA Tesla P40 is about 1.1× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 (estimated, median across models). In the US the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 costs $380 at eBay and the NVIDIA Tesla P40 $350 at eBay: the NVIDIA Tesla P40 is $30 cheaper.

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

$380

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NVIDIA Tesla P40

$350

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Specifications

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050NVIDIA Tesla P40
GPUGeForce RTX 5050Tesla P40
Memory8 GB GDDR624 GB GDDR5
Memory bus128-bit384-bit
Memory bandwidth320 GB/s346 GB/s
FP16 compute13.169 TFLOPS11.8 TFLOPS
SoftwareCUDACUDA
Board power130 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 5050NVIDIA Tesla P40
Gemma 4 26B-A4Boffload22tok/sQ5_K_M
gpt-oss 20Boffload23tok/sMXFP4
Gemma 4 12Boffload14tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9Boffload16tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 4Boffload24tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8Boffload9tok/sQ4_K_M
Gemma 4 E4Boffload18tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1Boffload17tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8Boffload9tok/sQ5_K_M
Qwen2.5 0.5B93tok/sQ8_0100tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 0.8B81tok/sQ8_088tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 2B65tok/sQ5_K_M70tok/sQ5_K_M
LFM3 1.7B57tok/sQ8_062tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B35tok/sQ8_038tok/sQ8_0
FrogNano 4B 2609offload24tok/sQ8_0
MiniCPM5 2Boffload26tok/sQ8_0
Spark X2.5 4Boffload27tok/smlx-4bit
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinkingoffload28tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 2.6Boffload20tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 VL 3Boffload20tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506offload18tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.6V Flashoffload14tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3Boffload18tok/smlx-8bit
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7Boffload14tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4 9B 0414offload16tok/smlx-5bit
granite vision 4.1 4boffload15tok/sQ8_0
granite 4.2 3boffload15tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512offload12tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinkingoffload13tok/smlx-8bit
Muse Glimmer 30Boffload10tok/sQ5_K_M
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 24Bwon't runoffload
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Gemma 3 27Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 3.2 24Bwon't runoffload
Ministral 3 14Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 14Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 8Boffloadoffload
Phi-4 14Bwon't runoffload
Granite 4.2 8Boffloadoffload
LFM2.5 24B A2Boffloadoffload
Qwen3.8 27B OBLITERATEDoffloadoffload
Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512offloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14Bwon't runoffload
Devstral Small 2507won't runoffload
Magistral Small 2506won't runoffload
Magistral Small 2507won't runoffload
Magistral Small 2509won'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
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 V3won'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
granite 4.2 30bwon't runwon't run

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 or the NVIDIA Tesla P40?
Choose the NVIDIA Tesla P40 to run bigger models. Choose the NVIDIA Tesla P40 for speed. Choose the NVIDIA Tesla P40 to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 or the NVIDIA Tesla P40?
At 128k context the NVIDIA Tesla P40 runs 32 of the models we track fully in memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 5; only the NVIDIA Tesla P40 holds Gemma 4 26B-A4B.
Which is faster for local AI, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 or the NVIDIA Tesla P40?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA Tesla P40 is about 1.1× as fast as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 and the NVIDIA Tesla P40?
In the US the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 costs $380 at eBay and the NVIDIA Tesla P40 $350 at eBay: the NVIDIA Tesla P40 is $30 cheaper.

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