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Gaudi 3 128GB vs RTX 4060 8GB for Local LLMs

The Gaudi 3 128GB has about 1104% more memory bandwidth (3,276 vs 272 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 1104% 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 4060 8GB: DeepSeek-V4-Flash (158.1B). MSRP is $12,500 for the Gaudi 3 128GB vs $299 for the RTX 4060 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 128GBRTX 4060 8GB
VendorIntelNVIDIA
VRAM128 GB8 GB
Memory typeHBM2eGDDR6
Memory bandwidth3,276 GB/s272 GB/s
TDP600 W115 W
MSRP (list)$12,500$299
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Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 38 shared models

ModelParams (B)Gaudi 3 128GB tok/sGaudi 3 128GB fitsRTX 4060 8GB tok/sRTX 4060 8GB fitsWinner
Qwen3-0.6B0.82605.9 est.Yes216.4 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
gemma-3-1b-it1.02084.7 est.Yes173.1 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct1.21737.3 est.Yes144.2 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-1.7B2.01042.4 est.Yes86.5 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B30.5694.9 est.Yes31.2 est.NoGaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct30.5694.9 est.Yes31.2 est.NoGaudi 3 128GB
GLM-4.7-Flash31.2694.9 est.Yes30.0 est.NoGaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-250730.5694.9 est.Yes31.2 est.NoGaudi 3 128GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct3.2651.5 est.Yes54.1 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
gpt-oss-20b21.5579.1 est.Yes47.9 est.NoGaudi 3 128GB
Phi-4-mini-instruct3.8548.6 est.Yes45.6 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
Phi-4-mini-reasoning3.8548.6 est.Yes45.6 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
gemma-3-4b-it4.3534.5 est.Yes44.4 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-25074.0521.2 est.Yes43.3 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-4B-Thinking-25074.0521.2 est.Yes43.3 est.YesGaudi 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 128GBRTX 4060 8GB
Catalog models that fit47 of 6117 of 61
Largest exclusive fitDeepSeek-V4-Flash (158.1B)—

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