H100 80GB SXM5 vs RTX 4060 Ti 8GB for Local LLMs

The H100 80GB SXM5 has about 1063% more memory bandwidth (3,350 vs 288 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 1063% faster on the H100 80GB SXM5. The H100 80GB SXM5 fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 46 vs 17 of 61 models (80 vs 8 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the H100 80GB SXM5 but not the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB: gpt-oss-120b (120.4B). MSRP is $30,000 for the H100 80GB SXM5 vs $399 for the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB. MSRP is a launch list price, not live retail — Amazon prices move; click through for the current price. Not retail-shoppable: H100 80GB SXM5 (datacenter-class; cloud rental is the realistic way to use it). In the Q4/8K head-to-head below (38 shared models), the H100 80GB SXM5 posts the higher tok/s in 38 rows vs 0. Methodology.

Spec comparison

	H100 80GB SXM5	RTX 4060 Ti 8GB
Vendor	NVIDIA	NVIDIA
VRAM	80 GB	8 GB
Memory type	HBM3	GDDR6
Memory bandwidth	3,350 GB/s	288 GB/s
TDP	700 W	160 W
MSRP (list)	$30,000	$399
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Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 38 shared models

Model	Params (B)	H100 80GB SXM5 tok/s	H100 80GB SXM5 fits	RTX 4060 Ti 8GB tok/s	RTX 4060 Ti 8GB fits	Winner
Qwen3-0.6B	0.8	2664.8 est.	Yes	229.1 est.	Yes	H100 80GB SXM5
gemma-3-1b-it	1.0	2131.8 est.	Yes	183.3 est.	Yes	H100 80GB SXM5
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct	1.2	1776.5 est.	Yes	152.7 est.	Yes	H100 80GB SXM5
Qwen3-1.7B	2.0	1065.9 est.	Yes	91.6 est.	Yes	H100 80GB SXM5
Qwen3-30B-A3B	30.5	710.6 est.	Yes	33.1 est.	No	H100 80GB SXM5
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct	30.5	710.6 est.	Yes	33.1 est.	No	H100 80GB SXM5
GLM-4.7-Flash	31.2	710.6 est.	Yes	31.7 est.	No	H100 80GB SXM5
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507	30.5	710.6 est.	Yes	33.1 est.	No	H100 80GB SXM5
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	3.2	666.2 est.	Yes	57.3 est.	Yes	H100 80GB SXM5
gpt-oss-20b	21.5	592.2 est.	Yes	50.7 est.	No	H100 80GB SXM5
Phi-4-mini-instruct	3.8	561.0 est.	Yes	48.2 est.	Yes	H100 80GB SXM5
Phi-4-mini-reasoning	3.8	561.0 est.	Yes	48.2 est.	Yes	H100 80GB SXM5
gemma-3-4b-it	4.3	546.6 est.	Yes	47.0 est.	Yes	H100 80GB SXM5
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507	4.0	533.0 est.	Yes	45.8 est.	Yes	H100 80GB SXM5
Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507	4.0	533.0 est.	Yes	45.8 est.	Yes	H100 80GB SXM5

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

	H100 80GB SXM5	RTX 4060 Ti 8GB
Catalog models that fit	46 of 61	17 of 61
Largest exclusive fit	gpt-oss-120b (120.4B)	—

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