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Home/Qwen3.5 27B/on Intel Arc A550M 8GB

Can it run?

Can Intel Arc A550M 8GB run Qwen3.5 27B?

FWon't run

Too heavy

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Too heavy

Decode

6.7 tok/s

TTFT

29051 ms

Safe context

6K

Memory

22.7 GB / 8.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights16.5 GB
KV Cache4.2 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom0.8 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingFToo heavy6.7 tok/s42255 ms10K
ChatFToo heavy6.7 tok/s15846 ms4K
CodingFToo heavy6.7 tok/s29051 ms6K
RAGFToo heavy6.7 tok/s52819 ms10K
ReasoningFToo heavy6.7 tok/s34333 ms6K

Quantization options

How Qwen3.5 27B (27B params) fits at each quantization level on Intel Arc A550M 8GB (8.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
10.5 GB
LowF0
Q3_K_S
3
13.2 GB
LowF0
NVFP4
4
15.1 GB
MediumF0
Q4_K_M
4
16.5 GB
MediumF0
Q5_K_M
5
19.4 GB
HighF0
Q6_K
6
22.1 GB
HighF0
Q8_0
8
28.9 GB
Very HighF0
F16
16
55.4 GB
MaximumF0

Upgrade options

Hardware that runs Qwen3.5 27B well

AMDRX 7900 XTX 24GBBest value
C41.5 tok/s decode

~$999 MSRP

AppleMac mini M4 64GBBudget pick
C5.2 tok/s decode

~$1,099 MSRP

NVIDIARTX 5090 32GBBiggest leap
B72.9 tok/s decode

~$1,999 MSRP

IntelIntel Arc Pro B60 24GBIntel upgrade
C14.8 tok/s decode

 

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