How fast will local models feel on the Intel Arc Pro B70 32GB?

Local LLM speed on the Intel Arc Pro B70 32GB

The Intel Arc Pro B70 32GB has 32 GB of memory and 608 GB/s of memory bandwidth, which is what mostly decides generation speed. Below is the expected speed for each model at the best quantization that fits.

ModelQuantizationMemoryGenerationFirst token
Qwen 3.6/3.8 27BQ4_K_MFits7.5 tok/s0.6 s
GLM-5.3 FlashUD-IQ1_SDoesn't fitWon't run—
GPT-OSS 20BMXFP4Fits76 tok/s0.3 s
Gemma 4 26B A4BQ4_K_MFits51 tok/s0.3 s
Qwen 3.5/3.6 35B A3BQ4_K_MFits66 tok/s0.3 s
Ornith 1.5 35B A3BQ4_K_MFits65 tok/s0.3 s
DeepSeek V4 FlashUD-IQ1_SDoesn't fitWon't run—
GPT-OSS 120BMXFP4Partial offload31 tok/s1.3 s
Gemma 4 31BQ4_K_MFits6.9 tok/s0.7 s
Llama 3.1 8BQ4_K_MFits26 tok/s0.4 s
Qwen 3.5 9BQ4_K_MFits21 tok/s0.4 s
DeepSeek R1 Distill 14BQ4_K_MFits14 tok/s0.5 s
Ornith 1.5 9BQ4_K_MFits20 tok/s0.4 s
Muse Glimmer 30BQ4_K_MFits5.9 tok/s0.7 s
Qwen3 30B A3BQ4_K_MFits58 tok/s0.3 s

Other hardware

Estimates for a short prompt on a single device. Measured numbers come from community benchmarks (r/LocalLLaMA, localscore.ai and more); others are derived from similar setups or projected from specs. Open source on GitHub.