What can Intel Arc A770 16GB run for coding?
Build: Intel Arc A770 16GB + — + 32 GB RAM (windows)
Runs comfortably80 models
Ranked by fit for coding use case + predicted speed. Click a row for VRAM breakdown.
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 8.9 GBHeadroom: 7.1 GBollama run codegemma:7b43tok/sEstimated
ollama run codegemma:7bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 10.0 GBHeadroom: 6.0 GBollama run qwen3:8b37tok/sEstimated
ollama run qwen3:8bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 11.6 GBHeadroom: 4.4 GBollama run qwen3:14b21tok/sEstimated
ollama run qwen3:14bQuant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 10.0 GBHeadroom: 6.0 GBollama run qwen2.5:7b24tok/sEstimated
ollama run qwen2.5:7bQuant: Q8_0Context: 8,192VRAM: 11.0 GBHeadroom: 5.0 GBollama run llama3.1:8b21tok/sEstimated
ollama run llama3.1:8bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 4.5 GBHeadroom: 11.5 GB99tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 4.6 GBHeadroom: 11.4 GB99tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 8.9 GBHeadroom: 7.1 GB43tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 9.1 GBHeadroom: 6.9 GB43tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 9.9 GBHeadroom: 6.1 GB37tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 11.2 GBHeadroom: 4.8 GB33tok/sEstimated
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 11.6 GBHeadroom: 4.4 GB21tok/sEstimated
Runs with tradeoffs51 models
Tight VRAM, partial CPU offload, or context-limited.
Quant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 13.0 GBHeadroom: 3.0 GB- • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.0 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run deepseek-coder-v2:16b19tok/sEstimated
- • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.0 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run deepseek-coder-v2:16bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 25.7 GBHeadroom: 9.5 GB- • Partial CPU offload: ~38% of layers run on CPU
ollama run codestral:22b14tok/sEstimated
- • Partial CPU offload: ~38% of layers run on CPU
ollama run codestral:22bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 12.1 GBHeadroom: 3.9 GB- • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.9 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run qwen2.5:14b21tok/sEstimated
- • Tight VRAM fit — only 3.9 GB headroom left for context growth
ollama run qwen2.5:14bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 23.1 GBHeadroom: 12.1 GB- • Partial CPU offload: ~31% of layers run on CPU
ollama run qwen2.5-coder:32b9tok/sEstimated
- • Partial CPU offload: ~31% of layers run on CPU
ollama run qwen2.5-coder:32bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 8,192VRAM: 34.9 GBHeadroom: 0.3 GB- • Partial CPU offload: ~54% of layers run on CPU
ollama run qwen3:30b10tok/sEstimated
- • Partial CPU offload: ~54% of layers run on CPU
ollama run qwen3:30bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 23.8 GBHeadroom: 11.4 GB- • Partial CPU offload: ~33% of layers run on CPU
ollama run gemma4:31b10tok/sEstimated
- • Partial CPU offload: ~33% of layers run on CPU
ollama run gemma4:31bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 25.0 GBHeadroom: 10.2 GB- • Partial CPU offload: ~36% of layers run on CPU
ollama run qwen3:32b9tok/sEstimated
- • Partial CPU offload: ~36% of layers run on CPU
ollama run qwen3:32bQuant: Q4_K_MContext: 2,048VRAM: 25.0 GBHeadroom: 10.2 GB- • Partial CPU offload: ~36% of layers run on CPU
ollama run qwen2.5:32b9tok/sEstimated
- • Partial CPU offload: ~36% of layers run on CPU
ollama run qwen2.5:32bWhat if you upgraded?
Hypothetical scenarios. We re-ran the compatibility engine for each.
+32 GB system RAM
Check the current price
Adds 32 GB to your CPU-offload working set. Helps when models don't quite fit in VRAM.
Unlocks: 28 new comfortable, 69 new tradeoff
- • Qwen 3 0.6B
- • Qwen 3 1.7B
- • Gemma 3 270M
- • SmolLM2 135M Instruct
Add a second Intel Arc A770 16GB
Launch MSRP $349 (2022). Check the current price.
Tensor parallelism splits the model across both cards, effectively doubling VRAM. Bandwidth doesn't double — runs ~1.5× the single-card speed in practice.
Unlocks: 73 new comfortable
- • Qwen 3 0.6B
- • Qwen 3 30B-A3B
- • Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
- • Qwen 3 32B
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Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.
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Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.
Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.
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Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.
Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.
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Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.
Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.
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Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.
Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.
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Even with CPU offload, needs more memory than your VRAM (16 GB) + 60% of system RAM (19 GB) combined.
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