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Gaudi 3 128GB vs Titan V 12GB for Local LLMs

The Gaudi 3 128GB has about 402% more memory bandwidth (3,276 vs 652.8 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 402% faster on the Gaudi 3 128GB. The Gaudi 3 128GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 53 vs 18 of 69 models (128 vs 12 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the Gaudi 3 128GB but not the Titan V 12GB: Step-3.5-Flash (196.8B). MSRP is $12,500 for the Gaudi 3 128GB vs $2,999 for the Titan V 12GB. 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 (41 shared models), the Gaudi 3 128GB posts the higher tok/s in 41 rows vs 0. Methodology.

Spec comparison

Gaudi 3 128GBTitan V 12GB
VendorIntelNVIDIA
VRAM128 GB12 GB
Memory typeHBM2eHBM2
Memory bandwidth3,276 GB/s652.8 GB/s
TDP600 W250 W
MSRP (list)$12,500$2,999
BuySearch Amazon (affiliate)

MSRP is the launch list price, not live retail. Buy links are Amazon affiliate links — the price after you click is the live price.

Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 41 shared models

ModelParams (B)Gaudi 3 128GB tok/sGaudi 3 128GB fitsTitan V 12GB tok/sTitan V 12GB fitsWinner
MiniCPM5-1B1.081930.3 est.Yes384.6 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3.5-2B2.01042.4 est.Yes207.7 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-layer-mix-bpw-3.8-mlx2.3906.4 est.Yes180.6 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B36.0694.9 est.Yes130.1 est.NoGaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B34.7694.9 est.Yes139.6 est.NoGaudi 3 128GB
GLM-4.7-Flash31.2694.9 est.Yes161.2 est.NoGaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-250730.5694.9 est.Yes167.9 est.NoGaudi 3 128GB
Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF1630.0694.9 est.Yes184.6 est.NoGaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-Coder-Next79.7694.9 est.Yes28.1 est.NoGaudi 3 128GB
Ornith-1.0-35B35.0694.9 est.Yes130.5 est.NoGaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct81.3694.9 est.Yes27.1 est.NoGaudi 3 128GB
qwen35b-a3b-fable-sft-abliterated34.7694.9 est.Yes132.5 est.NoGaudi 3 128GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct3.2651.5 est.Yes129.8 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
gpt-oss-20b21.5579.1 est.Yes257.5 est.NoGaudi 3 128GB
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it25.2548.6 est.Yes183.6 est.NoGaudi 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 128GBTitan V 12GB
Catalog models that fit53 of 6918 of 69
Largest exclusive fitStep-3.5-Flash (196.8B)

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