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Home/Llama 3.2 1B/on Intel Arc Pro A40 6GB

Can it run?

Can Intel Arc Pro A40 6GB run Llama 3.2 1B?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

94.1 tok/s

TTFT

2058 ms

Safe context

30K

Memory

3.2 GB / 6.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights0.6 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom0.6 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well94.1 tok/s2993 ms60K
ChatCRuns well94.1 tok/s1122 ms15K
CodingCRuns well94.1 tok/s2058 ms30K
RAGCRuns well94.1 tok/s3741 ms60K
ReasoningCRuns well94.1 tok/s2432 ms30K

Quantization options

How Llama 3.2 1B (1B params) fits at each quantization level on Intel Arc Pro A40 6GB (6.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
0.4 GB
LowD29
Q3_K_S
3
0.5 GB
LowD30
NVFP4
4
0.6 GB
MediumD30
Q4_K_M
4
0.6 GB
MediumD30
Q5_K_M
5
0.7 GB
HighD30
Q6_K
6
0.8 GB
HighD31
Q8_0
8
1.1 GB
Very HighD32
F16Best for your GPU
16
2.1 GB
MaximumD35

Get started

Ollama
ollama run llama-3.2-1b
HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download llama-3.2-1b
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