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Balanced for general local use. Keeps the ranking neutral across personal and serving workflows.
The Tesla P100 was NVIDIA's flagship datacenter GPU of the Pascal generation, launched in 2016 as the first accelerator to use HBM2 memory. Its 732 GB/s HBM2 bandwidth was extraordinary at launch and remains respectable for a 10-year-old card. The P100 can run 7B models at Q4 and 3B–4B models at FP16. Available at very low cost on cloud platforms like AWS P2 instances and the used market, it represents accessible compute for students and researchers running small-scale inference workloads. As a pure HPC GPU without INT8 Tensor Cores, it is inefficient for modern quantized inference.
Beyond LLMs
What AI tasks this GPU can handle — from text generation to image and video creation.
| Capability | Status | Representative Model |
|---|---|---|
| LLM Chat (7B) | Runs natively | Llama 3.1 8B Q4 |
| LLM Coding (30B) | Won’t fit | Qwen 3 30B Q4 |
| LLM Large (70B) | Won’t fit | Llama 3.1 70B Q4 |
| Image Gen (SDXL) | Runs natively | SDXL 1.0 FP16 |
| Image Gen (Flux) | Won't fit | Flux.1 Dev FP16 |
| Image Gen (SD 3.5) | Runs with sequential offload | SD 3.5 Large FP16 |
| Video Short (25f) | Runs natively | LTX Video 2B |
| Video Long (100f) | Won't fit | Wan Video 14B |
Architecture
Pascal is NVIDIA's first 16nm FinFET GPU architecture, powering the GTX 10-series consumer cards and Tesla P100/P40 datacenter accelerators. It introduced unified memory architecture and NVLink interconnect for datacenter GPUs.
AI Relevance
No dedicated Tensor Cores — all AI inference runs on standard CUDA cores at FP16 or FP32 precision. Still usable for small models (7B Q4) on cards with sufficient VRAM like the GTX 1080 Ti (11 GB) or P40 (24 GB), but significantly slower than Turing and newer.
Consejo de compra
Usable para IA local con limitaciones
Puede ejecutar 11 de 50 modelos principales, mayormente los más pequeños. Los modelos más grandes necesitan cuantización fuerte o no cabrán.
16.0 GB
VRAM
$5,999
PVP
$375/GB
Coste por GB de VRAM
Mejores modelos para esta GPU
What will limit you first
Este setup está bastante equilibrado para este modelo.
Generación PCIe más antigua
PCIe 3.0 puede servir, pero agrava la penalización cuando haces mucho offload o intentas escalar con varias GPUs.
Best upgrade itinerary
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Chat
SThis model is a direct match for chat. It belongs to a current frontier family for local AI. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, ollama, lm-studio.
Coding
SThis model is a direct match for coding. It belongs to a current frontier family for local AI. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, ollama, lm-studio.
Agentic Coding
SThis model is still usable for agentic-coding, but it is not the most specialized pick. It belongs to a current frontier family for local AI. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, ollama, lm-studio.
Reasoning
SThis model is a direct match for reasoning. It belongs to a current frontier family for local AI. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, ollama, lm-studio.
RAG
AThis model is a direct match for rag. It sits in the middle of the current model mix. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, ollama.
Qwen 3.5 9BQwen 3 8BQwen 3 14B
Phi-4-reasoning-plus 14BQwen 3.5 4BNemotron Nano 8B
Ministral 3 14BPhi-4 Mini Reasoning 4B
GPT-OSS 20B
Jina Embeddings v3
BGE M3Qwen3-Coder 30B A3B InstructQwen 3.5 397B A17BDevstral 2 123B Instruct
Kimi K2.5Kimi K2.6
DeepSeek V4 ProQwen 3.5 27BQwen 3.6 27BQwen 3.5 122B A10BQwen3-VL 30B A3B InstructQwen 3.6 35B A3BDeepSeek V4 FlashQwen 3.5 35B A3BMagistral Small 2507Devstral Small 2 24B InstructQwen 3 32BQwen 3 30B A3BMistral Small 4 119B
Command A 111BQwen 2.5 VL 72BGPT-OSS 120BNemotron 3 Nano 30BQwen3-Coder-NextDevstral Small 1.1
GLM-5.1Pixtral Large 124BGLM-5DeepSeek V3.2Qwen 3 235B A22BQwen3-Coder 480B A35B InstructNemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B
Gemma 4 31BLeanstral 119B A6BDeepSeek Coder V2 236BDeepSeek R1 671BDeepSeek V3.1 671B
EXAONE 4.0 32BGemma 4 26B A4BCasi al alcance
Modelos de alta calidad que necesitan un poco más de memoria
Image & Video Generation
31 of 52 models can generate images or video on your Tesla P100 16GB
| Model | Max Resolution | Gen Time | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| SD TurboImage | 512×512 | ~2.9s | S |
| Stable Diffusion 1.5Image | 512×768 | ~5.9s | S |
| Realistic Vision v5.1Image | 512×768 | ~5.9s | S |
| DreamShaper 8Image | 512×768 | ~5.9s | S |
| LCM DreamShaper v7Image | 512×768 | ~1.8s | S |
| PixArt-SigmaImage | 1024×1024 | ~23.5s | S |
| FramePack I2VVideo | 256×256 | ~43.1s/frame | S |
| SDXL TurboImage | 512×512 | ~2.9s | S |
| SDXL LightningImage | 1024×1024 | ~8.8s | S |
| Stable Diffusion XL 1.0Image | 1024×1024 | ~23.5s | S |
| Playground v2.5Image | 1024×1024 | ~35.2s | S |
| RealVisXL v5.0Image | 1024×1024 | ~26.4s | S |
| DreamShaper XLImage | 1024×1024 | ~26.4s | S |
| Juggernaut XL v9Image | 1024×1024 | ~26.4s | S |
| Animagine XL 3.1Image | 1024×1024 | ~26.4s | S |
| Pony Diffusion V6 XLImage | 1024×1024 | ~26.4s | S |
| Animagine XL 4.0Image | 1024×1024 | ~26.4s | S |
| Illustrious XLImage | 1024×1024 | ~26.4s | S |
| Wan Video 2.1 1.3BVideo | 256×256 | ~17.2s/frame | S |
| Stable Diffusion 3.5 MediumImage | 256×256 | ~2m 3s | S |
| Flux.2 Klein 4BImage | 256×256 | ~15.8s | S |
| LTX Video 2BVideo | 256×256 | ~20.4s/frame | S |
| KolorsImage | 256×256 | ~2m 5s | A |
| Stable CascadeImage | 1024×1024 | ~58.7s | B |
| AuraFlow v0.3Image | 256×256 | ~3m 28s | B |
| Stable Diffusion 3.5 LargeImage | 256×256 | ~5m 49s | B |
| Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large TurboImage | 256×256 | ~1m 3s | B |
| CogVideoX 2BVideo | 256×256 | ~20.4s/frame | D |
| HunyuanVideoVideo | 256×256 | ~43.1s/frame | D |
| ChromaImage | 256×256 | ~23.5s | D |
| Z-Image TurboImage | 256×256 | ~48.4s | D |
| Flux.1 DevImage | 256×256 | ~1m 46s | F |
| Flux.1 SchnellImage | 256×256 | ~20.5s | F |
| LTX Video 13BVideo | 256×256 | ~43.1s/frame | F |
| Flux.1 Kontext DevImage | 256×256 | ~1m 57s | F |
| AnimateDiff v1.5.3Video | 512×768 | ~10.7s/frame | F |
| Cosmos Diffusion 7BVideo | 256×256 | ~33.6s/frame | F |
| CogVideoX 5BVideo | 256×256 | ~29.4s/frame | F |
| Wan2.2 TI2V 5BVideo | 256×256 | ~29.4s/frame | F |
| Flux.2 Klein 9BImage | 256×256 | ~11.7s | F |
| Flux.1 Fill DevImage | 256×256 | ~1m 40s | F |
| Mochi 1 PreviewVideo | 256×256 | ~38.8s/frame | F |
| HunyuanVideo 1.5Video | 256×256 | ~36s/frame | F |
| Helios 14BVideo | 256×256 | ~44.4s/frame | F |
| SkyReels V2 14BVideo | 256×256 | ~44.4s/frame | F |
| Wan Video 2.1 14BVideo | 256×256 | ~44.4s/frame | F |
| Wan Video 2.2 14BVideo | 256×256 | ~44.4s/frame | F |
| Qwen ImageImage | 256×256 | ~39.5s | F |
| Qwen Image EditImage | 256×256 | ~39.5s | F |
| Flux.2 DevImage | 256×256 | ~18m 31s | F |
| MAGI-1Video | 256×256 | ~55.1s/frame | F |
| HunyuanImage 3.0Image | 256×256 | ~1m 10s | F |
Image models estimated at 1024×1024 (28 steps, FP16). Video models estimated at 768×512 (25 frames, 30 steps, FP16). Actual performance varies with runtime and system load.
Upgrade paths
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Tesla P100 16GB (16 GB VRAM) can run these top models: Qwen 3.5 9B (score: 97/100), Qwen 3 8B (score: 95/100), Qwen 3 14B (score: 93/100). See the full compatibility list above.
Tesla P100 16GB has 16 GB of VRAM available for AI model inference. This determines which models and quantization levels you can run locally.
Yes, Tesla P100 16GB is excellent for running LLMs locally with top compatibility scores above 80/100.
For coding on Tesla P100 16GB, we recommend Qwen 3.5 9B. It achieves 84.6 tokens per second with 58K context window. This model is a direct match for coding. It belongs to a current frontier family for local AI. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, ollama, lm-studio.
There are 4 upgrade path(s) from Tesla P100 16GB: MacBook Pro M3 24GB, RTX A4500 20GB. Upgrading would unlock larger models and faster inference speeds.
Tesla P100 16GB can run Flux.1 Dev with sequential offloading or at a lower precision (FP8/NF4). The Schnell variant is faster and fits more easily. For best results, use ComfyUI with model offloading enabled.
Tesla P100 16GB (16 GB VRAM) can handle various AI generation tasks beyond LLMs. For image generation, SDXL and Stable Diffusion 3.5 run well. For video, LTX Video 2.3 can generate short clips. Check the AI Capability Matrix above for detailed compatibility.
Tesla P100 16GB is good for AI image generation. It handles SDXL and SD 3.5 well, and can run Flux with some optimization. 16 GB of usable memory is sufficient for most image generation workflows at standard resolutions.
Qwen 3.5 27B needs ~16.5 GB at Q4_K_M, which is tight for Tesla P100 16GB with 16 GB. You can run the 9B variant at Q8 (9.6 GB) for excellent quality, or try the 35B-A3B MoE variant at Q4 if it fits your context needs.
With 16 GB on Tesla P100 16GB, use Q8_0 for 8B models (best quality), Q4_K_M for 14B models (good balance), and Q4_K_M with limited context for larger models. Avoid going below Q4 — quality drops sharply at Q2-Q3.
Tesla P100 16GB has enough memory for many local LLMs, but bandwidth still matters a lot for real speed. Once a model fits, a faster-memory GPU can feel significantly better than a slower setup with similar capacity.
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