AMD RX 9070 vs NVIDIA Tesla P100 16GB for local LLMs
7 reports on the AMD RX 9070 and 13 on the NVIDIA Tesla P100 16GB
Which is faster for local LLMs?
On Qwen3.8 27B at 3-bit, the AMD RX 9070 has generation speed not reported; prompt processing 600.0 tokens/s (one run); the NVIDIA Tesla P100 16GB has 10.0 generation tokens/s (one run). Memory bandwidth, which caps how fast a card can write, is 14% higher on the NVIDIA Tesla P100 16GB (640 GB/s on the AMD RX 9070, 732 on the NVIDIA Tesla P100 16GB).
- Memory
- 16GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 640 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 145 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 7
- Memory
- 16GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 732 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 19 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 13
Measured on both
Generation and prompt processing speeds from plain runs (one device, one request, no speculative decoding, the whole model in the device's memory) of the same model size at the same bit class. Each side shows the engines and reported context behind its median. Context can mean a configured window or prompt depth, so these are community comparisons with differing settings. How to read these
| Model | AMD RX 9070 | NVIDIA Tesla P100 16GB |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B3-bit | -0 runsPP 600.0 (one run)llama.cpp128K context | 10.0one runengine not statedcontext not stated |
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. Where a model was also measured above, the measurement wins.
| Model | AMD RX 9070 | NVIDIA Tesla P100 16GB |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | 41.7 t/sQ2_K | 47.7 t/sQ2_K |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | 138.0 t/sQ2_K | 157.9 t/sQ2_K |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 41.7 t/sQ2_K | 47.7 t/sQ2_K |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 93.0 t/sQ3_K_S | 106.4 t/sQ3_K_S |
| GLM-5.3 320B · 18B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
Change the context, RAM or model in the calculator: AMD RX 9070 · NVIDIA Tesla P100 16GB
Every report on each card, with its source: AMD RX 9070 · NVIDIA Tesla P100 16GB