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Can the Intel Arc A770 16GB run qwen3 1.7B?

FULL

1.8 GB needed of 16 GB usable — headroom for context

16GB · Alchemist · model file 1.4GB · 1.7B

~80–200 tok/s

computed roofline: 560 GB/s × 0.20–0.50 efficiency window / 1.4GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points. Small models (under ~4.5B) run BELOW these bands — kernel-launch overhead keeps them from saturating bandwidth (measured against community medians, 09-06).

Run qwen3 1.7B on instead

Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) — cheapest catalog machine that runs qwen3 1.7B fully ($110)

arc-b580 — the next step up from Intel Arc A770 16GB

every model the Intel Arc A770 16GB can run — full list

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