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NVIDIA Tesla P40

VRAM
24 GB
HIGH-END
BANDWIDTH
347
GB/S
MODELS Q4
330/449
73%
7B Q4 SPEED
~40
FAST
▸ MODEL COVERAGE @ Q473% OF ALL
▸ ESTIMATED SPEED· BY MODEL SIZE @ Q4

Average speeds at Q4 quantization. Actual performance varies by model architecture and context length.

3B
~93
TOK/S
7B
~40
TOK/S
14B
~20
TOK/S
32B
~9
TOK/S
70B
39.4GB NEEDED
▸ SPECIFICATIONS
VRAM
24 GB
BANDWIDTH
347 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
0.2 TFLOPS
TDP
250W
MEMORY
GDDR5
ARCHITECTURE
Pascal
CUDA CORES
3,840
PCIE
Gen 3 x16
233
FAST MODELS · >30 TOK/S
Real-time chat speed
295
USABLE · >10 TOK/S
Comfortable for all tasks
330
TOTAL COMPATIBLE
Fit in VRAM at Q4
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▸ COMPATIBLE MODELS· 330
S
Falcon-H1R Tiny 90M0.09B
FALCON·256K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
3084
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 135M0.135B
SMOLLM·2K CTX· CHAT
2056
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 100M0.14B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· CHAT
1983
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
GPT-2 124M0.14B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
1983
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
SmolVLM 256M0.256B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
1084
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
Gemma 3 270M0.27B
GEMMA·32K CTX· CHAT
1028
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed M v2.00.305B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
910
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
bge-large-en-v1.5 335M0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· CHAT
829
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
829
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
829
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
LFM2 350M0.35B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE
793
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 360M0.36B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
771
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.38B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
731
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
555
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
SmolVLM 500M0.5B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
555
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1 0.5B0.52B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT
534
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
BGE-M30.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING
489
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L v2.00.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
489
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
Qwen3-Embedding 0.6B0.6B
EMBEDDING·32K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
463
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1R Tiny 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
463
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
Falcon Perception 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·4K CTX· VISION
463
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.62B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
448
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
LFM2 700M0.74B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE
375
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
Qwen3 0.6B0.75B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
370
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Large 774M0.81B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
343
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
Qwen 3.5 0.8B0.87B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT· CODING· MULTILINGUAL
319
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
InternVL3 1B0.94B
OTHER·32K CTX· CHAT· VISION
295
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
MiniCPM5 1B1.08B
MINICPM·128K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· MULTILINGUAL
257
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B
LLAMA·2K CTX· CHAT
252
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B
LFM·122K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· TOOL_USE
231
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
Llama-3.2-1B1.2B
LLAMA·4K CTX· CHAT
231
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
LFM2 1.2B1.2B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE· MULTILINGUAL
231
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
Zamba2 1.2B1.2B
OTHER·4K CTX· CHAT
231
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
EXAONE-4.0-1.2B1.3B
EXAONE·64K CTX· CHAT
214
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
OPT 1.3B1.3B
OPT·2K CTX· CHAT
214
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
MiniCPM-V 4.61.3B
OTHER·256K CTX· CHAT· VISION
214
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.35B
DEEPSEEK·16K CTX· CODING
206
TOK/S · 5% VRAM
S
Phi-1 1.3B1.42B
PHI·2K CTX· CODING
195
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
Phi-1.5 1.3B1.42B
PHI·2K CTX· CHAT· CODING
195
TOK/S · 6% VRAM
S
LFM2 8B A1B8.3BMoE
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE· MULTILINGUAL
185
TOK/S · 23% VRAM
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▸ DEVICE UNDER TEST

NVIDIA Tesla P4024 GB VRAM.

TESLA P40 SPEC
BRAND
NVIDIA
VRAM
24 GB GDDR5
BANDWIDTH
347 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
0.2 TFLOPS
FP32 COMPUTE
11.8 TFLOPS
CUDA CORES
3,840
TDP
250 W
ARCHITECTURE
Pascal
▸ AI CAPABILITY
330/ 449 models @ Q4

With 24 GB VRAM and 347 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 34.4B parameters.

Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~40 tok/s.

§ 01TOP MODELS FOR TESLA P40
330 FIT · SHOWING 20
MODELSIZEVRAM Q4TOK/SAVG
Nous Capybara 34B34.4B21.5 GB842.0
Yi-1.5 34B34.4B21.5 GB845.3
Falcon-H1 34B34B21.3 GB866.1
CodeLlama 34B34B21.3 GB825.4
Nous Hermes 2 34B34B21.3 GB847.0
Phind CodeLlama 34B34B21.3 GB868.1
LLaVA-1.6 Yi 34B34B21.3 GB847.4
WizardCoder Python 34B34B21.3 GB873.2
Yi 34B34B21.3 GB833.4
Qwen3-VL 32B Instruct33.36B20.9 GB844.6
DeepSeek Coder 33B33B20.7 GB826.0
Vicuna 33B33B20.7 GB817.2
LLaMA 1 30B33B20.7 GB817.8
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B32.8B20.5 GB846.9
Qwen3 32B32.8B20.5 GB854.9
Gemma 4 31B32.68B20.5 GB853.7
Qwen2.5-32B32.5B20.4 GB954.3
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B32.5B20.4 GB948.0
QwQ-32B32.5B20.4 GB943.7
Granite Switch 4.1 30B Preview32.24B20.2 GB936.1