Can Arc A770 16GB run Qwen3-1.7B?

Intel · 16 GB GDDR6 · 560 GB/s bandwidth · Alibaba · 2.0B · model ctx up to 40K

Yes — the Arc A770 16GB (16 GB GDDR6) can run Qwen3-1.7B. At Q4 with the default 8K context it needs ≈ 2.5 GB VRAM (weights 1.1 GB + KV cache 0.4 GB + 1 GB runtime overhead), which fits within 16 GB. Decode at Q4/8K: ≈ 178.2 tok/s (estimated, batch 1). FP16 (≈ 5.4 GB) also fits, at ≈ 49.0 tok/s (estimated). Estimates come from memory-bandwidth math; rows tagged measured override estimates. Relative ranking is more reliable than absolute tok/s. Methodology.

Fit & speed by quant and context

Quant	Context	VRAM needed	Fits?	tok/s (decode)
Q4	4K	2.3 GB	Yes	178.2 est.
Q4	8K default	2.5 GB	Yes	178.2 est.
Q4	32K	3.7 GB	Yes	178.2 est.
FP16	4K	5.2 GB	Yes	49.0 est.
FP16	8K default	5.4 GB	Yes	49.0 est.
FP16	32K	6.6 GB	Yes	49.0 est.

Fits = weights + KV(ctx) + 1 GB overhead ≤ 95% of VRAM. Measured anchors are context-agnostic; the fit verdict is recomputed per context. A missing tok/s means the model is far beyond this card (offload-only territory).

VRAM breakdown at 8K context

Quant	Weights	KV cache	Overhead	Total needed	Arc A770 16GB VRAM
Q4	1.1 GB	0.4 GB	1 GB	2.5 GB	16 GB
FP16	4.0 GB	0.4 GB	1 GB	5.4 GB	16 GB

Other GPUs that run Qwen3-1.7B

• B200 192GB SXM — ≈2545.5 tok/s Q4 est.
• MI300X 192GB — ≈1686.4 tok/s Q4 est.
• H200 141GB SXM5 — ≈1527.3 tok/s Q4 est.
• H100 80GB SXM5 — ≈1065.9 tok/s Q4 est.
• Gaudi 3 128GB — ≈1042.4 tok/s Q4 est.
• A100 80GB SXM4 — ≈648.8 tok/s Q4 est.
• RTX 5090 32GB — ≈570.2 tok/s Q4 est.
• RTX 4090 24GB — ≈320.7 tok/s Q4 est.

All GPUs for Qwen3-1.7B →

Other models for the Arc A770 16GB

• Qwen3-0.6B — ≈445.5 tok/s Q4 est.
• gemma-3-1b-it — ≈356.4 tok/s Q4 est.
• Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct — ≈297.0 tok/s Q4 est.
• Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct — ≈111.4 tok/s Q4 est.
• gpt-oss-20b — ≈99.0 tok/s Q4 est.
• Phi-4-mini-instruct — ≈93.8 tok/s Q4 est.
• Phi-4-mini-reasoning — ≈93.8 tok/s Q4 est.
• gemma-3-4b-it — ≈91.4 tok/s Q4 est.

All models on the Arc A770 16GB →