RTX 4090D 24GB (China) vs V100 16GB PCIe for Local LLMs
The RTX 4090D 24GB (China) has about 12% more memory bandwidth (1,008 vs 900 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 12% faster on the RTX 4090D 24GB (China). The RTX 4090D 24GB (China) fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 41 vs 25 of 73 models (24 vs 16 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the RTX 4090D 24GB (China) but not the V100 16GB PCIe: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (36.0B). MSRP is $1,599 for the RTX 4090D 24GB (China) vs $8,000 for the V100 16GB PCIe. MSRP is a launch list price, not live retail — Amazon prices move; click through for the current price. Not retail-shoppable: RTX 4090D 24GB (China), V100 16GB PCIe (datacenter-class; cloud rental is the realistic way to use it). In the Q4/8K head-to-head below (49 shared models), the RTX 4090D 24GB (China) posts the higher tok/s in 43 rows vs 6. Methodology.
Spec comparison
RTX 4090D 24GB (China)
V100 16GB PCIe
Vendor
NVIDIA
NVIDIA
VRAM
24 GB
16 GB
Memory type
GDDR6X
HBM2
Memory bandwidth
1,008 GB/s
900 GB/s
TDP
425 W
250 W
MSRP (list)
$1,599
$8,000
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