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

The Gaudi 3 128GB has about 498% more memory bandwidth (3,276 vs 548 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 498% 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 Xp 12GB: Step-3.5-Flash (196.8B). MSRP is $12,500 for the Gaudi 3 128GB vs $1,200 for the Titan Xp 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 Xp 12GB
VendorIntelNVIDIA
VRAM128 GB12 GB
Memory typeHBM2eGDDR5X
Memory bandwidth3,276 GB/s548 GB/s
TDP600 W250 W
MSRP (list)$12,500$1,200
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 Xp 12GB tok/sTitan Xp 12GB fitsWinner
MiniCPM5-1B1.081930.3 est.Yes322.9 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3.5-2B2.01042.4 est.Yes174.4 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-layer-mix-bpw-3.8-mlx2.3906.4 est.Yes151.6 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B36.0694.9 est.Yes109.2 est.NoGaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B34.7694.9 est.Yes117.2 est.NoGaudi 3 128GB
GLM-4.7-Flash31.2694.9 est.Yes135.3 est.NoGaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-250730.5694.9 est.Yes141.0 est.NoGaudi 3 128GB
Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF1630.0694.9 est.Yes155.0 est.NoGaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-Coder-Next79.7694.9 est.Yes23.6 est.NoGaudi 3 128GB
Ornith-1.0-35B35.0694.9 est.Yes109.6 est.NoGaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct81.3694.9 est.Yes22.7 est.NoGaudi 3 128GB
qwen35b-a3b-fable-sft-abliterated34.7694.9 est.Yes111.3 est.NoGaudi 3 128GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct3.2651.5 est.Yes109.0 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
gpt-oss-20b21.5579.1 est.Yes216.2 est.NoGaudi 3 128GB
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it25.2548.6 est.Yes154.1 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 Xp 12GB
Catalog models that fit53 of 6918 of 69
Largest exclusive fitStep-3.5-Flash (196.8B)

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