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Home/Qwen 3 1.7B/on Intel Arc B580 12GB

Can it run?

Can Intel Arc B580 12GB run Qwen 3 1.7B?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

211.1 tok/s

TTFT

917 ms

Safe context

33K

Memory

4.2 GB / 12.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights1.0 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom1.2 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well211.1 tok/s1334 ms33K
ChatCRuns well211.1 tok/s500 ms23K
CodingCRuns well211.1 tok/s917 ms33K
RAGCRuns well211.1 tok/s1668 ms33K
ReasoningCRuns well211.1 tok/s1084 ms33K

Quantization options

How Qwen 3 1.7B (1.7000000476837158B params) fits at each quantization level on Intel Arc B580 12GB (12.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
0.7 GB
LowD29
Q3_K_S
3
0.8 GB
LowD29
NVFP4
4
1.0 GB
MediumD30
Q4_K_M
4
1.0 GB
MediumD30
Q5_K_M
5
1.2 GB
HighD30
Q6_K
6
1.4 GB
HighD30
Q8_0
8
1.8 GB
Very HighD31
F16Best for your GPU
16
3.5 GB
MaximumD34

Get started

Ollama
ollama run qwen-3-1.7b
HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download qwen-3-1.7b

Upgrade options

Hardware that runs Qwen 3 1.7B well

AppleMacBook Pro M3 Pro 18GBBudget pick
C105.6 tok/s decode

~$1,999 MSRP

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