Arc B570 10G — what LLMs can it run?
49 of 112 indexed models fit comfortably in 10GB at 4K context, each at the highest-quality quant that still leaves headroom.
The short answer for Arc B570 10G
10 GB, 380 GB/s GDDR6. 49 of 112 models in this index fit comfortably at 4K context; 57 load at all.
- Biggest that fits
- Mistral Nemo 12B Instruct — 8.4 GB at Q4_K_M — 1.6 GB spare at 4K, so longer context comes out of a thin margin.
- Room to grow
- GLM-4-9B-Chat — 5.9 GB at Q4_K_M — under 60% of the card, which leaves 4.1 GB for a long context window or a second process.
- Speed ceiling
- Llama 3.1 8B Instruct at Q4_K_M reads 4.6 GB of weights per token, so 380 GB/s puts a hard ceiling near 82 tok/s. That is arithmetic on two published numbers, not a benchmark — real throughput lands below it. No run on this card has been measured here, so there is nothing to compare the ceiling against.
- The wall you will hit
- Backend coverage, not capacity. At 380 GB/s the card has the memory system for its size class; what limits it is which runtimes reach it. llama.cpp's SYCL backend lists Arc A-series and B580 cards as verified, and Ollama runs them through Vulkan — so GGUF is the format this site recommends here. AWQ, GPTQ and EXL2 are not.
14B · 10
| Model | Quant | Est. VRAM | Headroom | tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral Nemo 12B Instruct12B | Q4_K_M | 8.42 GB | +1.6 GB | 25–34Derived |
| Gemma 3 12B IT12B | Q4_K_M | 8.52 GB | +1.5 GB | 25–34Derived |
| Mellum2.1 12B-A2.5B Thinking12B-A2.5B | Q4_K_M | 8.59 GB | +1.4 GB | ≤240Ceiling |
| Stable LM 2 12B Chat12B | Q4_K_M | 8.35 GB | +1.7 GB | 26–34Derived |
| Gemma 4 12B IT12B | Q4_K_M | 8.02 GB | +2 GB | 26–35Derived |
| Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct11B | Q4_K_M | 7.66 GB | +2.3 GB | 28–37Derived |
| Solar 10.7B Instruct11B | Q4_K_M | 7.6 GB | +2.4 GB | 29–38Derived |
| Falcon 3 10B Instruct10B | Q4_K_M | 7.28 GB | +2.7 GB | 30–39Derived |
| Gemma 2 9B Instruct9B | Q4_K_M | 7.3 GB | +2.7 GB | 34–44Derived |
| Qwen3.5 9B9B | Q4_K_M | 6.58 GB | +3.4 GB | 30–40Derived |
7B · 25
| Model | Quant | Est. VRAM | Headroom | tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLM-4-9B-Chat9B | Q4_K_M | 5.87 GB | +4.1 GB | 34–46Derived |
| Qwen3-VL 8B Instruct8B | Q5_K_M | 7.15 GB | +2.8 GB | 30–40Derived |
| Granite 4.2 8B8B | Q4_K_M | 6.28 GB | +3.7 GB | 35–47Derived |
| Ministral 3 8B Instruct8B | Q5_K_M | 6.92 GB | +3.1 GB | 31–41Derived |
| Qwen2-VL 7B Instruct7B | Q4_K_M | 5.49 GB | +4.5 GB | 37–50Derived |
| Granite 3.1 8B Instruct8B | Q4_K_M | 5.88 GB | +4.1 GB | 38–50Derived |
| Qwen3 8B Instruct8B | Q6_K | 7.64 GB | +2.4 GB | 28–37Derived |
| Llama 3.1 8B Instruct8B | Q6_K | 7.43 GB | +2.6 GB | 29–38Derived |
| Nous Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 8B8B | Q4_K_M | 5.64 GB | +4.4 GB | 39–51Derived |
| Aya 23 8B8B | Q4_K_M | 5.64 GB | +4.4 GB | 39–51Derived |
| OpenChat 3.6 8B8B | Q4_K_M | 5.64 GB | +4.4 GB | 39–51Derived |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B8B | Q5_K_M | 6.51 GB | +3.5 GB | 33–44Derived |
| InternLM2 7B Chat7B | Q4_K_M | 5.45 GB | +4.6 GB | 40–53Derived |
| Qwen2.5 7B Instruct7B | Q6_K | 6.77 GB | +3.2 GB | 30–40Derived |
| Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct7B | Q4_K_M | 5.07 GB | +4.9 GB | 41–54Derived |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B7B | Q4_K_M | 5.07 GB | +4.9 GB | 41–54Derived |
| Gemma 4 E4B ITE4B | Q8_0 | 8.46 GB | +1.5 GB | 24–31Derived |
| OLMo 2 7B Instruct7B | Q4_K_M | 6.82 GB | +3.2 GB | 43–56Derived |
| OLMo 3 7B Instruct7B | Q4_K_M | 6.82 GB | +3.2 GB | 43–56Derived |
| WizardLM-2 7B7B | Q4_K_M | 5.14 GB | +4.9 GB | 43–57Derived |
| Mistral 7B Instruct v0.37B | Q6_K | 6.75 GB | +3.3 GB | 32–42Derived |
| Zephyr 7B Beta7B | Q6_K | 6.75 GB | +3.3 GB | 32–42Derived |
| Gemma 4 E2B ITE2B | Q8_0 | 5.2 GB | +4.8 GB | ≤81Ceiling |
| Qwen3.5 4B4B | Q8_0 | 4.97 GB | +5 GB | ≤87Ceiling |
| Gemma 3 4B IT4B | Q8_0 | 5.05 GB | +5 GB | ≤88Ceiling |
≤3B · 14
| Model | Quant | Est. VRAM | Headroom | tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3 4B Instruct4B | Q6_K | 4.05 GB | +6 GB | ≤122Ceiling |
| Phi-4 Mini Instruct3.8B | Q8_0 | 4.81 GB | +5.2 GB | ≤98Ceiling |
| Phi-3.5 Mini Instruct3.8B | Q8_0 | 5.89 GB | +4.1 GB | ≤98Ceiling |
| Granite 4.2 3B3B | Q8_0 | 4.41 GB | +5.6 GB | ≤103Ceiling |
| Llama 3.2 3B Instruct3B | Q8_0 | 4.05 GB | +6 GB | ≤117Ceiling |
| Qwen2.5 3B Instruct3B | Q8_0 | 3.59 GB | +6.4 GB | ≤122Ceiling |
| SmolLM3 3B3B | Q8_0 | 3.73 GB | +6.3 GB | ≤122Ceiling |
| Gemma 2 2B Instruct2B | Q8_0 | 3.34 GB | +6.7 GB | ≤144Ceiling |
| Qwen3.5 2B2B | Q8_0 | 2.23 GB | +7.8 GB | ≤192Ceiling |
| Qwen3 1.7B Instruct1.7B | Q8_0 | 2.39 GB | +7.6 GB | ≤218Ceiling |
| Qwen2.5 1.5B Instruct1.5B | Q8_0 | 1.83 GB | +8.2 GB | ≤245Ceiling |
| Llama 3.2 1B Instruct1B | Q8_0 | 1.51 GB | +8.5 GB | ≤304Ceiling |
| Qwen3.5 0.8B0.8B | Q8_0 | 0.94 GB | +9.1 GB | ≤469Ceiling |
| Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct0.5B | Q8_0 | 0.6 GB | +9.4 GB | ≤776Ceiling |
How this list is built
Each row is the lowest-perplexity-loss quant of that model whose estimated total — weights plus KV cache at 4K context plus activation buffer — uses at most 88% of the card. That is the calculator's "green" threshold, so every row here has real headroom rather than only just fitting. Raise the context length and the list shortens; the calculator lets you check any combination directly. The speed column is this card: a measured run, a range scaled from this card's own Llama 2 7B benchmark, or a bandwidth ceiling. A figure that only exists for the RTX 4090 is labelled as that card.
A further 8 models load but with no headroom to spare (up to 105% of VRAM) — the Quant Hub’s GPU chips count those too, which is why its number is higher.
Measured on this card
No benchmark runs in this index were recorded on a Arc B570 10G. Every figure on this page is calculated from the model architecture and the quant level — treat them as estimates, not measurements.
Setup guides for this card
Step-by-step guides written for the Arc B570 10G's runtime or memory size, with the commands and the checks that prove the model is running on the card.
Stepping up
A Arc B580 12G (12GB) fits 8 more of the indexed models than this card. Arc B580 12G →
Before buying, hear the speed difference on a model both cards hold: Arc B570 10G vs Arc B580 12G (Mistral Nemo 12B Instruct) →
Common questions
What is the best local LLM for an Arc B570 10G?
For everyday use, GLM-4-9B-Chat at Q4_K_M — about 5.9 GB of the card's 10 GB at 4K context, leaving 4.1 GB for a longer window. If you want the largest thing that will load, that is Mistral Nemo 12B Instruct at Q4_K_M (8.4 GB, 1.6 GB spare). "Best" here means best fit for the memory budget — this index does not run task benchmarks, so it cannot tell you which model is smarter.
Can an Arc B570 10G run Phi-3 Medium 14B Instruct?
Only just. Its smallest build here, Q4_K_M, needs about 9.7 GB against 10.0 GB usable — that loads with nothing else running, with no margin for a longer context window. It is not on the list above, which requires a model to stay inside 88% of usable capacity.
How many tokens per second does an Arc B570 10G do on an 8B model at Q4?
This index has no measured run on this card, so it does not publish a figure. What can be stated from specifications: generating a token requires reading every weight once, Llama 3.1 8B Instruct at Q4_K_M is 4.6 GB of weights, and this card moves 380 GB/s — a ceiling near 82 tok/s. Batch size, context length, the runtime and how much of the model sits in cache all take you below it.
Arc B570 10G or RTX 3080 10G for local LLMs?
They do not hold the same set: Arc B570 10G fits 49 and RTX 3080 10G 57 of 112 at 4K — the cards load different formats. Speed is the other difference — 380 GB/s against 760 GB/s, a 2.0× gap in how fast the weights can be read, which is what token generation is bound by. The RTX 3080 10G generates faster on any model both can hold.
49 of 112 indexed models fit comfortably in 10GB at 4K context, each at the highest-quality quant that still leaves headroom.
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