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Home/Samantha 7B/on Intel Arc B580 12GB

Can it run?

Can Intel Arc B580 12GB run Samantha 7B?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

51.3 tok/s

TTFT

3777 ms

Safe context

4K

Memory

7.8 GB / 12.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights4.3 GB
KV Cache1.1 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom1.2 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well51.3 tok/s5494 ms4K
ChatCRuns well51.3 tok/s2060 ms4K
CodingCRuns well51.3 tok/s3777 ms4K
RAGCRuns well51.3 tok/s6867 ms4K
ReasoningCRuns well51.3 tok/s4464 ms4K

Quantization options

How Samantha 7B (7B params) fits at each quantization level on Intel Arc B580 12GB (12.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
2.7 GB
LowD33
Q3_K_S
3
3.4 GB
LowD35
NVFP4
4
3.9 GB
MediumD36
Q4_K_M
4
4.3 GB
MediumD36
Q5_K_M
5
5.0 GB
HighD37
Q6_K
6
5.7 GB
HighD39
Q8_0Best for your GPU
8
7.5 GB
Very HighC42
F16
16
14.3 GB
MaximumF0

Get started

Ollama
ollama run samantha-7b
HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download samantha-7b
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