How fast will Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B feel on the Intel Arc Pro B70 32GB?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B on the Intel Arc Pro B70 32GB

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B is a 31.58B-parameter mixture-of-experts model (3B active per token). At Q4_K_M it needs about 26.0 GB of memory. The Intel Arc Pro B70 32GB has 30 GB usable, so it fits entirely in memory. Expect about 53 tokens/sec (33–73), with the first token after 0.3 s for a short prompt. This estimate is interpolated from benchmarks of similar setups.

Speed by quantization

QuantizationFile sizeMemoryGenerationFirst tokenSource
Q4_K_M25.3 GBFits53 tok/s0.3 sDerived
Q8_035.0 GBPartial offload32 tok/s1.3 sProjected
FP1665.8 GBPartial offload11 tok/s1.3 sProjected

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B on other hardware

Other models on the Intel Arc Pro B70 32GB

All models on the Intel Arc Pro B70 32GB · Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B on all 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.