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Home/Qwen 3 0.6B/on Intel Arc B580 12GB

Can it run?

Can Intel Arc B580 12GB run Qwen 3 0.6B?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

218.9 tok/s

TTFT

885 ms

Safe context

33K

Memory

3.6 GB / 12.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights0.4 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom1.2 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well218.9 tok/s1287 ms33K
ChatCRuns well218.9 tok/s482 ms27K
CodingCRuns well218.9 tok/s885 ms33K
RAGCRuns well218.9 tok/s1608 ms33K
ReasoningCRuns well218.9 tok/s1045 ms33K

Quantization options

How Qwen 3 0.6B (0.6000000238418579B params) fits at each quantization level on Intel Arc B580 12GB (12.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
0.2 GB
LowD28
Q3_K_S
3
0.3 GB
LowD28
NVFP4
4
0.3 GB
MediumD28
Q4_K_M
4
0.4 GB
MediumD28
Q5_K_M
5
0.4 GB
HighD28
Q6_K
6
0.5 GB
HighD29
Q8_0
8
0.6 GB
Very HighD29
F16Best for your GPU
16
1.2 GB
MaximumD30

Get started

Ollama
ollama run qwen-3-0.6b
HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download qwen-3-0.6b

Upgrade options

Hardware that runs Qwen 3 0.6B well

AppleMacBook Pro M3 Pro 18GBBudget pick
C109.5 tok/s decode

~$1,999 MSRP

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