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Arc B570 10GB vs RX 7700 XT 12GB for Local LLMs

The RX 7700 XT 12GB has about 14% more memory bandwidth (432 vs 380 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 14% faster on the RX 7700 XT 12GB. The RX 7700 XT 12GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 18 vs 17 of 61 models (12 vs 10 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the RX 7700 XT 12GB but not the Arc B570 10GB: gemma-3-12b-it (12.2B). MSRP is $219 for the Arc B570 10GB vs $449 for the RX 7700 XT 12GB. 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 (38 shared models), the RX 7700 XT 12GB posts the higher tok/s in 37 rows vs 1. Methodology.

Spec comparison

Arc B570 10GBRX 7700 XT 12GB
VendorIntelAMD
VRAM10 GB12 GB
Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Memory bandwidth380 GB/s432 GB/s
TDP150 W245 W
MSRP (list)$219$449
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Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 38 shared models

ModelParams (B)Arc B570 10GB tok/sArc B570 10GB fitsRX 7700 XT 12GB tok/sRX 7700 XT 12GB fitsWinner
Qwen3-0.6B0.8302.3 est.Yes343.6 est.YesRX 7700 XT 12GB
gemma-3-1b-it1.0241.8 est.Yes274.9 est.YesRX 7700 XT 12GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct1.2201.5 est.Yes229.1 est.YesRX 7700 XT 12GB
gpt-oss-20b21.5104.5 est.No171.1 est.NoRX 7700 XT 12GB
Qwen3-1.7B2.0120.9 est.Yes137.5 est.YesRX 7700 XT 12GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B30.568.2 est.No111.6 est.NoRX 7700 XT 12GB
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct30.568.2 est.No111.6 est.NoRX 7700 XT 12GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-250730.568.2 est.No111.6 est.NoRX 7700 XT 12GB
GLM-4.7-Flash31.265.4 est.No107.1 est.NoRX 7700 XT 12GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct3.275.6 est.Yes85.9 est.YesRX 7700 XT 12GB
Phi-4-mini-instruct3.863.6 est.Yes72.3 est.YesRX 7700 XT 12GB
Phi-4-mini-reasoning3.863.6 est.Yes72.3 est.YesRX 7700 XT 12GB
gemma-3-4b-it4.362.0 est.Yes70.5 est.YesRX 7700 XT 12GB
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-25074.060.5 est.Yes68.7 est.YesRX 7700 XT 12GB
Qwen3-4B-Thinking-25074.060.5 est.Yes68.7 est.YesRX 7700 XT 12GB

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 B570 10GBRX 7700 XT 12GB
Catalog models that fit17 of 6118 of 61
Largest exclusive fitgemma-3-12b-it (12.2B)

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