B200 192GB SXM vs RTX 5090 32GB for Local LLMs

The B200 192GB SXM has about 346% more memory bandwidth (8,000 vs 1,792 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 346% faster on the B200 192GB SXM. The B200 192GB SXM fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 50 vs 38 of 61 models (192 vs 32 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the B200 192GB SXM but not the RTX 5090 32GB: Qwen3-235B-A22B (235.1B). MSRP is $40,000 for the B200 192GB SXM vs $1,999 for the RTX 5090 32GB. MSRP is a launch list price, not live retail — Amazon prices move; click through for the current price. Not retail-shoppable: B200 192GB SXM (datacenter-class; cloud rental is the realistic way to use it). In the Q4/8K head-to-head below (47 shared models), the B200 192GB SXM posts the higher tok/s in 47 rows vs 0. Methodology.

Spec comparison

	B200 192GB SXM	RTX 5090 32GB
Vendor	NVIDIA	NVIDIA
VRAM	192 GB	32 GB
Memory type	HBM3e	GDDR7
Memory bandwidth	8,000 GB/s	1,792 GB/s
TDP	1000 W	575 W
MSRP (list)	$40,000	$1,999
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Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 47 shared models

Model	Params (B)	B200 192GB SXM tok/s	B200 192GB SXM fits	RTX 5090 32GB tok/s	RTX 5090 32GB fits	Winner
gemma-3-1b-it	1.0	5000 est.	Yes	1140.4 est.	Yes	B200 192GB SXM
Qwen3-0.6B	0.8	5000 est.	Yes	1425.5 est.	Yes	B200 192GB SXM
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct	1.2	4242.4 est.	Yes	950.3 est.	Yes	B200 192GB SXM
Qwen3-1.7B	2.0	2545.5 est.	Yes	570.2 est.	Yes	B200 192GB SXM
Qwen3-30B-A3B	30.5	1697.0 est.	Yes	380.1 est.	Yes	B200 192GB SXM
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct	30.5	1697.0 est.	Yes	380.1 est.	Yes	B200 192GB SXM
GLM-4.7-Flash	31.2	1697.0 est.	Yes	380.1 est.	Yes	B200 192GB SXM
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507	30.5	1697.0 est.	Yes	380.1 est.	Yes	B200 192GB SXM
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct	81.3	1697.0 est.	Yes	518.3 est.	No	B200 192GB SXM
Qwen3-Coder-Next	79.7	1697.0 est.	Yes	538.6 est.	No	B200 192GB SXM
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	3.2	1590.9 est.	Yes	356.4 est.	Yes	B200 192GB SXM
gpt-oss-20b	21.5	1414.1 est.	Yes	282.5 measured	Yes	B200 192GB SXM
Phi-4-mini-instruct	3.8	1339.7 est.	Yes	300.1 est.	Yes	B200 192GB SXM
Phi-4-mini-reasoning	3.8	1339.7 est.	Yes	300.1 est.	Yes	B200 192GB SXM
gemma-3-4b-it	4.3	1305.4 est.	Yes	292.4 est.	Yes	B200 192GB SXM

est. = bandwidth-based estimate; measured = curated real benchmark that overrides the estimate. Fits = weights + KV(8K) + 1 GB overhead ≤ 95% of VRAM.

Fit coverage at Q4 / 8K

	B200 192GB SXM	RTX 5090 32GB
Catalog models that fit	50 of 61	38 of 61
Largest exclusive fit	Qwen3-235B-A22B (235.1B)	—

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