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Tesla P4 8GB vs RTX 3060 12GB for Local LLMs

The RTX 3060 12GB has about 88% more memory bandwidth (360 vs 192 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 88% faster on the RTX 3060 12GB. The RTX 3060 12GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 18 vs 16 of 69 models (12 vs 8 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the RTX 3060 12GB but not the Tesla P4 8GB: OLMo-2-1124-13B-Instruct (13.7B). MSRP is $80 for the Tesla P4 8GB vs $329 for the RTX 3060 12GB. MSRP is a launch list price, not live retail — Amazon prices move; click through for the current price. In the Q4/8K head-to-head below (39 shared models), the RTX 3060 12GB posts the higher tok/s in 39 rows vs 0. Methodology.

Spec comparison

Tesla P4 8GBRTX 3060 12GB
VendorNVIDIANVIDIA
VRAM8 GB12 GB
Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Memory bandwidth192 GB/s360 GB/s
TDP75 W170 W
MSRP (list)$80$329
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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 39 shared models

ModelParams (B)Tesla P4 8GB tok/sTesla P4 8GB fitsRTX 3060 12GB tok/sRTX 3060 12GB fitsWinner
MiniCPM5-1B1.08113.1 est.Yes212.1 est.YesRTX 3060 12GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct3.238.2 est.Yes122.9 measuredYesRTX 3060 12GB
Qwen3.5-2B2.061.1 est.Yes114.5 est.YesRTX 3060 12GB
Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF1630.024.1 est.No101.8 est.NoRTX 3060 12GB
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it25.223.9 est.No101.2 est.NoRTX 3060 12GB
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-layer-mix-bpw-3.8-mlx2.353.1 est.Yes99.6 est.YesRTX 3060 12GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-250730.521.9 est.No92.6 est.NoRTX 3060 12GB
GLM-4.7-Flash31.221.0 est.No88.9 est.NoRTX 3060 12GB
gpt-oss-20b21.533.6 est.No84.0 measuredNoRTX 3060 12GB
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B34.718.2 est.No77.0 est.NoRTX 3060 12GB
qwen35b-a3b-fable-sft-abliterated34.717.3 est.No73.1 est.NoRTX 3060 12GB
Ornith-1.0-35B35.017.0 est.No72.0 est.NoRTX 3060 12GB
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B36.017.0 est.No71.8 est.NoRTX 3060 12GB
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-25074.030.5 est.Yes57.3 est.YesRTX 3060 12GB
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF164.030.5 est.Yes57.3 est.YesRTX 3060 12GB

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

Tesla P4 8GBRTX 3060 12GB
Catalog models that fit16 of 6918 of 69
Largest exclusive fit—OLMo-2-1124-13B-Instruct (13.7B)

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