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Home/Ministral 8B/on Intel Arc B580 12GB

Can it run?

Can Intel Arc B580 12GB run Ministral 8B?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

44.9 tok/s

TTFT

4316 ms

Safe context

23K

Memory

8.5 GB / 12.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights4.9 GB
KV Cache1.3 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom1.2 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well44.9 tok/s6278 ms39K
ChatCRuns well44.9 tok/s2354 ms12K
CodingCRuns well44.9 tok/s4316 ms23K
RAGCRuns well44.9 tok/s7848 ms39K
ReasoningCRuns well44.9 tok/s5101 ms23K

Quantization options

How Ministral 8B (8B params) fits at each quantization level on Intel Arc B580 12GB (12.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
3.1 GB
LowD34
Q3_K_S
3
3.9 GB
LowD36
NVFP4
4
4.5 GB
MediumD37
Q4_K_M
4
4.9 GB
MediumD37
Q5_K_M
5
5.8 GB
HighD39
Q6_K
6
6.6 GB
HighC40
Q8_0Best for your GPU
8
8.6 GB
Very HighC44
F16
16
16.4 GB
MaximumF0

Get started

Ollama
ollama run ministral-8b
HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download ministral-8b
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