NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB vs NVIDIA Tesla P40 24GB for local LLMs
69 reports on the NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB and 12 on the NVIDIA Tesla P40 24GB
Which is faster for local LLMs?
Nobody has reported the same model at the same quant on both cards yet, so there's no measured head-to-head. Memory bandwidth, which caps how fast a card can write, is about the same on both (360 GB/s on the NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB, 346 on the NVIDIA Tesla P40 24GB). The estimates below compare them on the models people run most.
- Memory
- 12GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 360 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 51 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 69
- Memory
- 24GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 346 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 12 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 12
Estimated by the calculator
The quant the calculator recommends for each card and its estimated speed at a 32,768-token context with 32 GB of system RAM, from memory bandwidth and the model's shape.
| Model | NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB | NVIDIA Tesla P40 24GB |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | 1.5 t/sQ8_0, layers on CPU | 12.5 t/sQ4_K_M |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | doesn't fit at these settings | 16.9 t/sQ2_K, experts in RAM |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | 13.1 t/sQ6_K, experts in RAM | 44.4 t/sQ4_K_S |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 1.5 t/sQ8_0, layers on CPU | 12.5 t/sQ4_K_M |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 58.8 t/sQ2_K | 28.2 t/sQ5_K_S |
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