Arc A770 16GB vs Tesla P4 8GB for Local LLMs

The Arc A770 16GB has about 192% more memory bandwidth (560 vs 192 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 192% faster on the Arc A770 16GB. The Arc A770 16GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 24 vs 16 of 69 models (16 vs 8 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the Arc A770 16GB but not the Tesla P4 8GB: gemma-4-26B-A4B-it (25.2B). MSRP is $349 for the Arc A770 16GB vs $80 for the Tesla P4 8GB. MSRP is a launch list price, not live retail — Amazon prices move; click through for the current price. In the Q4/8K head-to-head below (39 shared models), the Arc A770 16GB posts the higher tok/s in 39 rows vs 0. Methodology.

Spec comparison

	Arc A770 16GB	Tesla P4 8GB
Vendor	Intel	NVIDIA
VRAM	16 GB	8 GB
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Memory bandwidth	560 GB/s	192 GB/s
TDP	225 W	75 W
MSRP (list)	$349	$80
Buy	Search Amazon (affiliate)	Search Amazon (affiliate)

MSRP is the launch list price, not live retail. Buy links are Amazon affiliate links — the price after you click is the live price.

Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 39 shared models

Model	Params (B)	Arc A770 16GB tok/s	Arc A770 16GB fits	Tesla P4 8GB tok/s	Tesla P4 8GB fits	Winner
MiniCPM5-1B	1.08	330.0 est.	Yes	113.1 est.	Yes	Arc A770 16GB
Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF16	30.0	281.9 est.	No	24.1 est.	No	Arc A770 16GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507	30.5	256.4 est.	No	21.9 est.	No	Arc A770 16GB
GLM-4.7-Flash	31.2	246.1 est.	No	21.0 est.	No	Arc A770 16GB
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B	34.7	213.1 est.	No	18.2 est.	No	Arc A770 16GB
qwen35b-a3b-fable-sft-abliterated	34.7	202.3 est.	No	17.3 est.	No	Arc A770 16GB
Ornith-1.0-35B	35.0	199.2 est.	No	17.0 est.	No	Arc A770 16GB
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B	36.0	198.7 est.	No	17.0 est.	No	Arc A770 16GB
Qwen3.5-2B	2.0	178.2 est.	Yes	61.1 est.	Yes	Arc A770 16GB
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-layer-mix-bpw-3.8-mlx	2.3	154.9 est.	Yes	53.1 est.	Yes	Arc A770 16GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	3.2	111.4 est.	Yes	38.2 est.	Yes	Arc A770 16GB
gpt-oss-20b	21.5	99.0 est.	Yes	33.6 est.	No	Arc A770 16GB
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it	25.2	93.8 est.	Yes	23.9 est.	No	Arc A770 16GB
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507	4.0	89.1 est.	Yes	30.5 est.	Yes	Arc A770 16GB
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16	4.0	89.1 est.	Yes	30.5 est.	Yes	Arc A770 16GB

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	Tesla P4 8GB
Catalog models that fit	24 of 69	16 of 69
Largest exclusive fit	gemma-4-26B-A4B-it (25.2B)	—

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