Arc A770 16GB vs Gaudi 3 128GB for Local LLMs

The Gaudi 3 128GB has about 485% more memory bandwidth (3,276 vs 560 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 485% faster on the Gaudi 3 128GB. The Gaudi 3 128GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 47 vs 25 of 61 models (128 vs 16 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the Gaudi 3 128GB but not the Arc A770 16GB: DeepSeek-V4-Flash (158.1B). MSRP is $349 for the Arc A770 16GB vs $12,500 for the Gaudi 3 128GB. MSRP is a launch list price, not live retail — Amazon prices move; click through for the current price. Not retail-shoppable: Gaudi 3 128GB (datacenter-class; cloud rental is the realistic way to use it). In the Q4/8K head-to-head below (44 shared models), the Gaudi 3 128GB posts the higher tok/s in 44 rows vs 0. Methodology.

Spec comparison

	Arc A770 16GB	Gaudi 3 128GB
Vendor	Intel	Intel
VRAM	16 GB	128 GB
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM2e
Memory bandwidth	560 GB/s	3,276 GB/s
TDP	225 W	600 W
MSRP (list)	$349	$12,500
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Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 44 shared models

Model	Params (B)	Arc A770 16GB tok/s	Arc A770 16GB fits	Gaudi 3 128GB tok/s	Gaudi 3 128GB fits	Winner
Qwen3-0.6B	0.8	445.5 est.	Yes	2605.9 est.	Yes	Gaudi 3 128GB
gemma-3-1b-it	1.0	356.4 est.	Yes	2084.7 est.	Yes	Gaudi 3 128GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct	1.2	297.0 est.	Yes	1737.3 est.	Yes	Gaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-1.7B	2.0	178.2 est.	Yes	1042.4 est.	Yes	Gaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B	30.5	257.2 est.	No	694.9 est.	Yes	Gaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct	30.5	257.2 est.	No	694.9 est.	Yes	Gaudi 3 128GB
GLM-4.7-Flash	31.2	246.9 est.	No	694.9 est.	Yes	Gaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507	30.5	257.2 est.	No	694.9 est.	Yes	Gaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct	81.3	40.5 est.	No	694.9 est.	Yes	Gaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-Coder-Next	79.7	42.1 est.	No	694.9 est.	Yes	Gaudi 3 128GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	3.2	111.4 est.	Yes	651.5 est.	Yes	Gaudi 3 128GB
gpt-oss-20b	21.5	99.0 est.	Yes	579.1 est.	Yes	Gaudi 3 128GB
Phi-4-mini-instruct	3.8	93.8 est.	Yes	548.6 est.	Yes	Gaudi 3 128GB
Phi-4-mini-reasoning	3.8	93.8 est.	Yes	548.6 est.	Yes	Gaudi 3 128GB
gemma-3-4b-it	4.3	91.4 est.	Yes	534.5 est.	Yes	Gaudi 3 128GB

est. = bandwidth-based estimate; measured = curated real benchmark that overrides the estimate. Fits = weights + KV(8K) + 1 GB overhead ≤ 95% of VRAM.

Fit coverage at Q4 / 8K

	Arc A770 16GB	Gaudi 3 128GB
Catalog models that fit	25 of 61	47 of 61
Largest exclusive fit	—	DeepSeek-V4-Flash (158.1B)

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