Gaudi 3 128GB vs RTX 3070 8GB for Local LLMs

The Gaudi 3 128GB has about 631% more memory bandwidth (3,276 vs 448 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 631% faster on the Gaudi 3 128GB. The Gaudi 3 128GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 47 vs 17 of 61 models (128 vs 8 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the Gaudi 3 128GB but not the RTX 3070 8GB: DeepSeek-V4-Flash (158.1B). MSRP is $12,500 for the Gaudi 3 128GB vs $499 for the RTX 3070 8GB. MSRP is a launch list price, not live retail — Amazon prices move; click through for the current price. Not retail-shoppable: Gaudi 3 128GB (datacenter-class; cloud rental is the realistic way to use it). In the Q4/8K head-to-head below (38 shared models), the Gaudi 3 128GB posts the higher tok/s in 38 rows vs 0. Methodology.

Spec comparison

	Gaudi 3 128GB	RTX 3070 8GB
Vendor	Intel	NVIDIA
VRAM	128 GB	8 GB
Memory type	HBM2e	GDDR6
Memory bandwidth	3,276 GB/s	448 GB/s
TDP	600 W	220 W
MSRP (list)	$12,500	$499
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Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 38 shared models

Model	Params (B)	Gaudi 3 128GB tok/s	Gaudi 3 128GB fits	RTX 3070 8GB tok/s	RTX 3070 8GB fits	Winner
Qwen3-0.6B	0.8	2605.9 est.	Yes	356.4 est.	Yes	Gaudi 3 128GB
gemma-3-1b-it	1.0	2084.7 est.	Yes	285.1 est.	Yes	Gaudi 3 128GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct	1.2	1737.3 est.	Yes	237.6 est.	Yes	Gaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-1.7B	2.0	1042.4 est.	Yes	142.5 est.	Yes	Gaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B	30.5	694.9 est.	Yes	51.4 est.	No	Gaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct	30.5	694.9 est.	Yes	51.4 est.	No	Gaudi 3 128GB
GLM-4.7-Flash	31.2	694.9 est.	Yes	49.4 est.	No	Gaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507	30.5	694.9 est.	Yes	51.4 est.	No	Gaudi 3 128GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	3.2	651.5 est.	Yes	89.1 est.	Yes	Gaudi 3 128GB
gpt-oss-20b	21.5	579.1 est.	Yes	78.9 est.	No	Gaudi 3 128GB
Phi-4-mini-instruct	3.8	548.6 est.	Yes	75.0 est.	Yes	Gaudi 3 128GB
Phi-4-mini-reasoning	3.8	548.6 est.	Yes	75.0 est.	Yes	Gaudi 3 128GB
gemma-3-4b-it	4.3	534.5 est.	Yes	73.1 est.	Yes	Gaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507	4.0	521.2 est.	Yes	71.3 est.	Yes	Gaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507	4.0	521.2 est.	Yes	71.3 est.	Yes	Gaudi 3 128GB

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

	Gaudi 3 128GB	RTX 3070 8GB
Catalog models that fit	47 of 61	17 of 61
Largest exclusive fit	DeepSeek-V4-Flash (158.1B)	—

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