NVIDIA Tesla P40 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
For running models locally, priced in the US. At 32k context the first runs 26 models fully in memory, the second 26.
Specifications
| Spec | NVIDIA Tesla P40 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 |
|---|---|---|
| GPU | Tesla P40 | GeForce RTX 4090 |
| Memory | 24 GB GDDR5 | 24 GB GDDR6X |
| Memory bus | 384-bit | 384-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 346 GB/s | 1,008 GB/s |
| FP16 compute | 11.8 TFLOPS | 165 TFLOPS |
| Software | CUDA | CUDA |
| Board power | 250 W | 450 W |
| PCIe generation | Gen 3 | Gen 4 |
| PCIe lanes | x16 | x16 |
What each runs
Estimated decode speed with the most precise quant that fits each one est.
| Model | NVIDIA Tesla P40 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen 3.8 27B | 10tok/sUD-Q5_K_M | 28tok/sUD-Q5_K_M |
| Qwen 3.6 27B | 10tok/sQ5_K_M | 29tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Gemma 4 31B | 10tok/sQ4_K_M | 29tok/sQ4_K_M |
| Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B | 50tok/sUD-Q4_K_M | 145tok/sUD-Q4_K_M |
| Qwen 3.5 27B | 10tok/sQ5_K_M | 29tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B | 29tok/sUD-Q6_K | 84tok/sUD-Q6_K |
| Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B | 50tok/sQ4_K_M | 146tok/sQ4_K_M |
| GLM 4.7 Flash | 24tok/sQ5_K_M | 70tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Devstral Small 2 24B | 10tok/sQ5_K_M | 28tok/sQ5_K_M |
| gpt-oss 20B | 40tok/sMXFP4 | 116tok/sMXFP4 |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B | 26tok/sQ4_K_M | 74tok/sQ4_K_M |
| Gemma 4 12B | 16tok/sQ8_0 | 46tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.5 9B | 20tok/sQ8_0 | 59tok/sQ8_0 |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B | 10tok/sQ5_K_M | 28tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Gemma 3 27B | 10tok/sQ5_K_M | 28tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Ministral 3 14B | 11tok/sQ8_0 | 32tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3 14B | 10tok/sQ8_0 | 30tok/sQ8_0 |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B | 16tok/sQ8_0 | 46tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3 8B | 16tok/sQ8_0 | 46tok/sQ8_0 |
| Phi-4 14B | 10tok/sQ8_0 | 28tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.5 4B | 38tok/sQ8_0 | 112tok/sQ8_0 |
| Ministral 3 8B | 16tok/sQ8_0 | 46tok/sQ8_0 |
| Granite 4.2 8B | 15tok/sQ8_0 | 43tok/sQ8_0 |
| Gemma 4 E4B | 23tok/sQ8_0 | 68tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 8B-A1B | 48tok/sQ8_0 | 140tok/sQ8_0 |
| Llama 3.1 8B | 20tok/sQ6_K | 57tok/sQ6_K |
| Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 Coder Next | offload | offload |
| Mistral Small 4 119B | offload | offload |
| GLM 4.5 Air | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Kimi Linear 48B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 32B | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 5.3 Flash | won't run | won't run |
| Qwen 3.8 Flash Next | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M2.7 | won't run | won't run |
| Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B | won't run | won't run |
| gpt-oss 120B | won't run | won't run |
| Llama 3.3 70B | won't run | won't run |