Intel
Architecture
Ponte Vecchio is Intel's datacenter GPU architecture powering the Max series accelerators. It uses advanced multi-tile packaging combining Intel 7 and TSMC N5 processes, with up to 128 GB HBM2e memory.
AI Relevance
With 128 GB HBM2e and oneAPI support, the Max 1550 can host large AI models. Used in the Aurora exascale supercomputer. However, the AI software ecosystem is smaller than CUDA or ROCm.
Agentic Coding
BThis model is still usable for agentic-coding, but it is not the most specialized pick. It belongs to a current frontier family for local AI. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, lm-studio.
Chat
BThis model is a direct match for chat. It belongs to a current frontier family for local AI. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, lm-studio.
Coding
CThis model is a direct match for coding. It belongs to a current frontier family for local AI. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, ollama, lm-studio.
RAG
CThis model is a direct match for rag. It sits in the middle of the current model mix. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, ollama, lm-studio.
Reasoning
BThis model is a direct match for reasoning. It belongs to a current frontier family for local AI. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, lm-studio.
Mistral Small 4 119B
Qwen3.5 122B A10B
Command A 111B
Qwen3-Coder-NextMixtral 8x22BQwen 2.5 72BQwen 2.5 VL 72B
Llama 3.3 70BDevstral 2 123B InstructQwen3.5 35B A3BQwen 2.5 Coder 32BQwen3.5 27Bgemma 3 27b itQwen3-Coder 30B A3B InstructQwen3-VL 30B A3B InstructDevstral Small 2 24B InstructDevstral Small 1.1Codestral 2 25.08Qwen3.5 9BDeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8BQwen3.5 4BQwen2.5 3B Instruct
gemma 2bQwen2.5 1.5B Instruct
DeepSeek R1 671B
GLM-5
Kimi K2.5Mistral Large 3Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B InstructDeepSeek V3 671BQwen 3 235B A22BQwen3.5 397B A17BLlama 4 Maverick 17B 128EJust out of reach
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Upgrade paths
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Upgrade options
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