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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA Tesla P40 24GB — Specs & Performance Compared

Verdict: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 is ahead of the NVIDIA Tesla P40 24GB on all 3 shared benchmarks on file, by 129% to 152%, including 152% in 3DMark Time Spy Extreme (9,800 vs 3,894). On qwen3.6:35b-a3b, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 generates 135.7 tokens/s (per GitHub (thc1006)) against 37.9 for the NVIDIA Tesla P40 24GB (per llama.cpp GitHub (Discussion #25978)), best community run on file for each.

Side-by-side GPU comparison of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 and the NVIDIA Tesla P40 24GB. Released 2020 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090), 2016 (NVIDIA Tesla P40 24GB). MSRP range: $1,499 · $6,800. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability below; each column header links to that part's benchmark page.

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*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.

Where to buy

A listing for each part; the current price and stock are on the retailer's page.

Specs side-by-side

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090NVIDIA Tesla P40 24GB
vram gb 2424
vram type GDDR6X—
tdp w 350250
cuda cores 104963840

Synthetic benchmarks

Each row says whether a higher or a lower number is better (ranks and times are lower-is-better). Scores come from esports.hwbot.org, 3DMark, HWBOT, Notebookcheck, Geekbench Browser, Geekbench Browser / askgeek.io, PassMark and PCBench; each row links its sources, and where they differ the cell shows their median. Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.

BenchmarkNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090NVIDIA Tesla P40 24GB
3DMark Port Royal (higher is better)
Source: esports.hwbot.org, 3DMark, HWBOT		 15,039 points—
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better)
Source: 3DMark		 5,075 points—
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better)
Source: 3DMark		 5,229 points—
3DMark Steel Nomad (DX12 Graphics Score) (higher is better)
Source: 3DMark		 5,112 points—
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better)
Source: 3DMark		 18,824 points8,079 points
3DMark Time Spy Extreme (higher is better)
Source: 3DMark, Notebookcheck		 9,800 points3,894 points
Blender (higher is better)
Source: 3DMark		 —797 points
Geekbench 5 OpenCL (higher is better)
Source: Geekbench Browser		 —62,287 points
Geekbench OpenCL (higher is better)
Source: Geekbench Browser / askgeek.io		 —62,287 points
OctaneBench (higher is better)
Source: 3DMark		 —166 points
PassMark G2D Mark (higher is better)
Source: PassMark		 1,069 pts—
PassMark G3D Mark (higher is better)
Source: PassMark, PCBench		 26,548 pts11,596 points

AI inference (tokens/sec)

Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs whose weights fit the card's memory, each linked to its source. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization and prompt length.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

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NVIDIA Tesla P40 24GB

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Quick answers

Which is faster, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 or the NVIDIA Tesla P40 24GB?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 is ahead of the NVIDIA Tesla P40 24GB on all 3 shared benchmarks on file, by 129% to 152%, including 152% in 3DMark Time Spy Extreme (9,800 vs 3,894).

Which is better for running local LLMs?

On qwen3.6:35b-a3b, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 generates 135.7 tokens/s (per GitHub (thc1006)) against 37.9 for the NVIDIA Tesla P40 24GB (per llama.cpp GitHub (Discussion #25978)), best community run on file for each.

What did the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 and the NVIDIA Tesla P40 24GB cost at launch?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 launched at a $1,499 MSRP and the NVIDIA Tesla P40 24GB at $6,800. Street prices drift from launch pricing; the Where to buy section links current listings.

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