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AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB vs NVIDIA Tesla P40

For running models locally, priced in the US. At 64k context the first runs 10 models fully in memory, the second 22.

In short

The NVIDIA Tesla P40 has more memory for models: 24 GB against 16 GB. At 64k context the NVIDIA Tesla P40 runs 22 of the models we track fully in memory and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB 10; 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 AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB (estimated, median across models). In the US the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB costs $520 at Amazon and the NVIDIA Tesla P40 $405 at eBay: the NVIDIA Tesla P40 is $115 cheaper.

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

AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB

$520

Amazon

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NVIDIA Tesla P40

$405

eBay

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Specifications

SpecAMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GBNVIDIA Tesla P40
GPURadeon RX 9060 XT 16GBTesla P40
Memory16 GB GDDR624 GB GDDR5
Memory bus128-bit384-bit
Memory bandwidth320 GB/s346 GB/s
FP16 compute103 TFLOPS11.8 TFLOPS
SoftwareROCmCUDA
Board power160 W250 W
PCIe generationGen 5Gen 3
PCIe lanesx16x16

What each runs

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

ModelAMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GBNVIDIA Tesla P40
Qwen 3.8 27Boffload10tok/sUD-Q4_K_M
Qwen 3.6 27Boffload9tok/sQ5_K_M
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3Boffload40tok/sUD-Q4_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
gpt-oss 20B26tok/sMXFP432tok/sMXFP4
Gemma 4 12B13tok/sQ8_015tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B15tok/sQ8_018tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 3 27Boffload10tok/sQ4_K_M
Ministral 3 14Boffload10tok/sQ6_K
Qwen3 14Boffload9tok/sQ6_K
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B12tok/sQ4_K_M12tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8B12tok/sQ4_K_M12tok/sQ8_0
Phi-4 14Boffload9tok/sQ5_K_M
Qwen 3.5 4B26tok/sQ8_032tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B12tok/sQ4_K_M12tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8Boffload11tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B17tok/sQ8_021tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B25tok/sQ8_030tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B12tok/sQ5_K_M14tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Bwon't runoffload
Gemma 4 31Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Coder Nextwon't runoffload
Mistral Small 4 119Boffloadoffload
Devstral Small 2 24Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3Bwon't runoffload
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 32Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 3.2 24Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Boffloadoffload
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

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB 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 AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB or the NVIDIA Tesla P40?
At 64k context the NVIDIA Tesla P40 runs 22 of the models we track fully in memory and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB 10; only the NVIDIA Tesla P40 holds Qwen 3.8 27B.
Which is faster for local AI, the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 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 AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB and the NVIDIA Tesla P40?
In the US the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB costs $520 at Amazon and the NVIDIA Tesla P40 $405 at eBay: the NVIDIA Tesla P40 is $115 cheaper.

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