Calculate the TPS of the Arc A770M on local AI models

Intel 16 GB GDDR6 512 GB/s January 2022

Every model in our catalogue assessed against this card at the context length and minimum quality you choose. Speed is an estimate for a single request, calculated from this card's memory bandwidth and the size of each model once compressed.

Calculated for this card

432 models it can run

679 models in our catalogue altogether

Largest model it holds

Nemotron 3-Nano-30B-A3B

31.6B · Q3_K_M · 66.9 tok/s

Fastest model

Gemma 3 QAT 1B

141 tok/s · 1B

Which AI models can run on a Arc A770M?

Set the inputs, read the answer

More context means more memory for the conversation cache. Speed is for a fresh conversation and does not change with this setting.

Hides models that would only fit by being compressed below this point.

432 models match

Calculating
Quantisation Fit
141 tok/s

85–226 · low confidence

Gemma 3 1B 1B Mar 2025 1.8 GB 33k tokens Q8_0 Comfortable
141 tok/s

85–226 · low confidence

Gemma 3 QAT 1B 1B Apr 2025 1.8 GB 33k tokens Q8_0 Comfortable
141 tok/s

85–226 · low confidence

HGRN 1B (WT 103) 1B Nov 2023 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
141 tok/s

85–226 · low confidence

LLama 3..2 Typhoon 2 1B 1B Dec 2024 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
141 tok/s

85–226 · low confidence

OLMo-1B 1B Feb 2024 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
141 tok/s

85–226 · low confidence

Pythia-1b 1B Apr 2023 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
131 tok/s

78–209 · low confidence

OpenELM-1.1B 1.1B May 2024 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
128 tok/s

77–205 · low confidence

DeciCoder-1B 1.1B Aug 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
128 tok/s

77–205 · low confidence

SantaCoder 1.1B Jan 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
128 tok/s

77–205 · low confidence

TinyLlama-1.1B (1T token checkpoint) 1.1B Oct 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
128 tok/s

77–205 · low confidence

TinyLlama-1.1B (3T token checkpoint) 1.1B Oct 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
117 tok/s

70–188 · low confidence

EXAONE 4.0 (1.2B) 1.2B Jul 2025 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
117 tok/s

70–188 · low confidence

MinerU2.5 1.2B Sep 2025 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
117 tok/s

70–188 · low confidence

Pleias 1.0 1.2B 1.2B Dec 2024 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
117 tok/s

70–188 · low confidence

Pleias-RAG-1B 1.2B Apr 2025 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
115 tok/s

69–183 · low confidence

Llama 3.2 1B 1.2B Sep 2024 2.2 GB 131k tokens Q8_0 Comfortable
113 tok/s

68–181 · low confidence

MiniCPM-1.2B 1.2B Jun 2024 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
108 tok/s

65–173 · low confidence

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B 1.3B Jan 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
108 tok/s

65–173 · low confidence

DeepSeek-VL-1.3B 1.3B Mar 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
108 tok/s

65–173 · low confidence

DigiRL 1.3B Jun 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
108 tok/s

65–173 · low confidence

GLA Transformer 1.3B 1.3B Aug 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
108 tok/s

65–173 · low confidence

Janus 1.3B 1.3B Oct 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
108 tok/s

65–173 · low confidence

Kosmos-2.5 1.3B Aug 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
108 tok/s

65–173 · low confidence

Otter 1.3B May 2023 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
108 tok/s

65–173 · low confidence

Phi-1 1.3B Oct 2023 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable

Speeds are estimates for a single request — one conversation at a time — calculated from memory bandwidth, model size and quantisation. Real throughput varies with the inference runtime and its version. Figures published by hardware vendors measure many simultaneous requests and are much higher.

On record

Arc A770M full specification

Everything on record for this board, ordered by how much it bears on running a language model rather than by how a spec sheet would list it. Memory comes first because it decides the outcome; the rest is context.

Memory

The two specifications that decide what this card can run and how quickly. Capacity sets which models fit; bandwidth sets how many tokens per second they produce once they do.

Memory size
16 GB
Memory bandwidth
512 GB/s
Memory type
GDDR6
Memory bus width
256 bit
Memory clock
2 GHz

The chip

Which processor is on the board and how it was manufactured. A smaller process size generally means more performance for the same power.

Graphics processor
DG2-512
Architecture
Xe-HPG
Generation
Alchemist(Arc 7 Mobile)
Foundry
TSMC
Process size
6 nm
Transistors
21.7 billion
Transistor density
53,400 K/mm²
Die size
406 mm²
Released
1 January 2022

Clock speeds

How fast the processor runs. Worth far less here than on a gaming benchmark: generating text is limited by memory bandwidth, so a higher clock barely moves the result.

Base clock
1.65 GHz
Boost clock
2.05 GHz

Processing units

What the chip contains. These drive graphics performance and matter mainly for processing a long prompt rather than for producing the answer.

Shading units
4,096
Texture mapping units
256
Render output units
128
Ray tracing cores
32
L2 cache
16 MB

Theoretical performance

Peak arithmetic rates published for the board. These are ceilings that no real workload reaches, and generating text reaches a small fraction of them because it is limited by memory rather than arithmetic.

Half precision (FP16)
33.6 TFLOPS
Single precision (FP32)
16.8 TFLOPS
Pixel rate
262 GPixel/s
Texture rate
525 GTexel/s

The board

What it takes to physically install and power the card — the practical constraints that decide whether it fits the machine you already own.

Power draw (TDP)
120 W
Bus interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Slot width
IGP

Software support

Which graphics and compute interfaces the card supports. CUDA compute capability is the one that bears on inference: below 7.0 there are no tensor cores, and modern inference software falls back to slower code paths.

DirectX
12.2
OpenGL
4.6
Vulkan
1.4
OpenCL
3.0
Shader model
6.6

Listings

Where to buy a Arc A770M

No vendor is currently listing this card. Listings come from vendors who publish them here directly — browse the vendor directory to see who is selling what.

What the numbers mean

What the memory subsystem means for AI

Memory

16 GB

Bandwidth

512 GB/s

Largest model

Nemotron 3-Nano-30B-A3B

16 GB of GDDR6 puts the Arc A770M comfortably into small and mid-sized models, with roughly 14.4 GB usable once the driver overhead is taken out. The largest models are out of reach without splitting them.

The memory bus moves 512 GB/s across a 256-bit bus. That is the number that governs generation speed — arithmetic per byte read is small enough that the bus, not the cores, is what everything waits on.

That comes from a 2 GHz memory clock across the bus width above. Widening the bus and raising the clock are the two levers a manufacturer has, which is why a card with unremarkable cores can still generate quickly.

The biggest thing it holds is Nemotron 3-Nano-30B-A3B (31.6B) at Q3_K_M compression, for about 66.9 tokens per second.

The chip and how it was built

The Arc A770M is built on the DG2-512 graphics processor, using Intel's Xe-HPG architecture, as part of the Alchemist(Arc 7 Mobile) generation.

The chip is manufactured by TSMC, on a 6 nm process, with a die measuring 406 mm², holding 21.7 billion transistors. A smaller process generally means more performance for the same power, though for language models it matters far less than the memory subsystem.

It was released in January 2022, roughly 4 years ago. Inference software support tends to follow hardware by a year or two, so a card of this age generally has mature, well-optimised code paths available to it.

Compute throughput, and why it matters less than it looks

FP16

33.6 TFLOPS

On paper the Arc A770M reaches 33.6 TFLOPS at half precision and 16.8 TFLOPS at single precision. These are peak figures no real workload sustains, and generating text reaches only a small fraction of them — decoding is limited by memory rather than arithmetic, which is why a card can look enormously powerful here and still produce tokens at an ordinary rate.

Clocks run from 1.65 GHz at base to 2.05 GHz boosted. Worth far less here than on a gaming benchmark: raising the clock speeds up the arithmetic, and the arithmetic is not what generation is waiting on.

Cache and processing units

backed by 16 MB of L2. Cache absorbs a share of the memory traffic that would otherwise hit the main bus, which is the one place on this page where a number other than bandwidth quietly affects generation speed — a large L2 lets more of the working set stay close to the cores.

There are 4,096 shading units, 256 texture mapping units, and 128 render output units. These drive graphics workloads and contribute to prompt processing, but they sit idle for much of the time a model spends generating a reply.

Power, size and installation

Power draw

120 W

The Arc A770M is rated at 120 W. Running a language model keeps a card busy in bursts rather than continuously — it draws hard while generating and idles between requests — so sustained draw over a working day is usually well below the rated figure.

The board occupies a igp. Worth checking against the case and power supply already in the machine, since the largest cards need considerably more of both than a typical desktop provides.

It connects over PCIe 4.0 x16. The interface governs how quickly a model is loaded from disk into the card, not how fast it runs once there, so a narrower link costs a few seconds at startup and nothing thereafter.

The extremes

The largest AI models that run on a Arc A770M

The biggest open-weight models that fit on this card, newest first. Each is shown at the best compression the card can hold.

  1. 01 North Mini Code 30B · Q3_K_M · Jun 2026 70.4 tok/s
  2. 02 Qwen 3.6-27B 27B · Q3_K_M · Apr 2026 14.1 tok/s
  3. 03 Qwen3.5-27B 27B · Q3_K_M · Feb 2026 14.1 tok/s
  4. 04 Nemotron 3-Nano-30B-A3B 31.6B · Q3_K_M · Dec 2025 66.9 tok/s
  5. 05 Nomos 1 30B · Q3_K_M · Dec 2025 70.4 tok/s
  6. 06 C2S-Scale 27B · Q3_K_M · Oct 2025 14.1 tok/s
  7. 07 Gemma-SEA-LION-v4-27B-IT 27B · Q3_K_M · Aug 2025 14.1 tok/s
  8. 08 ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B 28B · Q3_K_M · Jun 2025 75.5 tok/s
  9. 09 Qwen3-30B-A3B 30B · Q3_K_M · Apr 2025 70.4 tok/s
  10. 10 Gemma 3 QAT 27B 27B · Q3_K_M · Apr 2025 14.1 tok/s

The fastest AI models on a Arc A770M

Where this card produces tokens quickest. Smaller models dominate here, because generating each token means reading the whole model out of memory once.

  1. 01 Gemma 3 QAT 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 141 tok/s
  2. 02 Gemma 3 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 141 tok/s
  3. 03 LLama 3..2 Typhoon 2 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 141 tok/s
  4. 04 OLMo-1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 141 tok/s
  5. 05 HGRN 1B (WT 103) 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 141 tok/s
  6. 06 Pythia-1b 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 141 tok/s
  7. 07 OpenELM-1.1B 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 131 tok/s
  8. 08 TinyLlama-1.1B (1T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 128 tok/s
  9. 09 TinyLlama-1.1B (3T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 128 tok/s
  10. 10 DeciCoder-1B 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 128 tok/s

Step by step

How to work out the tokens per second of a Arc A770M

You do not have to calculate anything by hand — the gputps.com calculator on this page has already worked it out for every model this card can hold. Reading off the answer takes six steps.

  1. 01

    Start with the model, not the specification

    Every one of the 432 models this Arc A770M runs is in the table above. Search narrows it by name or by size.

  2. 02

    Decide how long your conversations run

    Set the context to your real working length. Short questions cost almost nothing; a long document can consume a large share of the card's 16 GB.

  3. 03

    Pin the comparison to one quality level

    Compression is what lets bigger models fit. The quality control drops any model that needs more of it than you are willing to give.

  4. 04

    Take the range as the answer

    The figures are calculated, not measured. 141 tok/s on Gemma 3 QAT 1B is the fastest result on this card, and like every row it carries a range that reflects how much the runtime matters.

  5. 05

    Check the headroom before you decide

    Compare what each model needs with the 16 GB this card provides. Tight means it works today; comfortable means it still works when the conversation grows.

  6. 06

    Cross-check against other hardware

    Each model page repeats this calculation for the whole catalogue. Worth a look before deciding: it shows what else runs the same model, and how the Arc A770M compares.

Answers

Arc A770M — common questions

01

What bus interface does the Arc A770M use?

It uses PCIe 4.0 x16. This governs how fast a model is loaded onto the card rather than how fast it runs once loaded, so it costs a few seconds at startup and nothing during generation.

02

Is the Arc A770M good for running local AI models?

Its memory covers small and mid-sized models, though the largest are out of reach and its bandwidth gives usable, if unspectacular, generation speeds. In total it runs 432 of the models we track. Whether that is enough depends entirely on which model you want — the table above answers that directly.

03

Can a Arc A770M run a model that does not fit in its memory?

It can be split, with the overflow held in system memory — but that part drags the whole thing down, and none of the 16 GB figures on this page assume it.

04

Would two Arc A770M cards be twice as fast?

Pairing Arc A770M cards buys headroom rather than pace: 32 GB of combined memory, at roughly the same generation speed as one.

05

What AI models can a Arc A770M run?

432 of the 679 open-weight language models we track fit on a Arc A770M and can be run locally on it. The table on this page lists every one, with the memory it needs, the quantisation it runs at and an estimated generation speed.

06

What is the largest AI model a Arc A770M can run?

The largest model in our catalogue that fits on a Arc A770M is Nemotron 3-Nano-30B-A3B at 31.6B parameters, compressed to Q3_K_M. It generates roughly 66.9 tokens per second and needs about 14.4 GB of the card's memory.

07

How many tokens per second does a Arc A770M produce?

It depends on the model. On a Arc A770M the fastest model we track is Gemma 3 QAT 1B at about 141 tokens per second, while larger models run proportionally slower because each token requires reading the whole model out of memory once. Speeds are estimates for a single conversation at a time.

08

Can a Arc A770M run a 7B model?

Yes. For example a Arc A770M runs Multi-Token Prediction 7B at Q8_0, using about 7.9 GB of memory and generating around 21.0 tokens per second.

09

Can a Arc A770M run a 13B model?

Yes. For example a Arc A770M runs DeepSeekMoE-16B at Q6_K, using about 13.7 GB of memory and generating around 71.1 tokens per second.

10

Can a Arc A770M run a 30B model?

Yes. For example a Arc A770M runs ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B at Q3_K_M, using about 12.9 GB of memory and generating around 75.5 tokens per second.

11

How much memory does a Arc A770M have?

A Arc A770M has 16 GB of GDDR6 memory. Around a tenth of that is reserved by the inference runtime and the driver, leaving roughly 14.4 GB available for a model and its conversation.

12

What is the memory bandwidth of a Arc A770M?

The Arc A770M has 512 GB/s of memory bandwidth, across a 256-bit memory bus. This is the single best predictor of how fast it generates text, because producing each token means reading the entire model out of memory once.

13

What type of memory does a Arc A770M use?

It uses GDDR6 clocked at 2 GHz. HBM types are found on datacentre accelerators and carry far more bandwidth than the GDDR used on desktop cards, which is why they generate tokens considerably faster at the same capacity.

14

Who makes the Arc A770M?

The Arc A770M is a Intel product, with the chip manufactured by TSMC, on a 6 nm process.

15

When was the Arc A770M released?

The Arc A770M was released in January 2022.

16

How much power does a Arc A770M use?

The Arc A770M has a rated board power of 120 W. Generating text draws hard in bursts and idles between requests, so average consumption over a working session is normally well below the rated figure.

17

How much cache does a Arc A770M have?

and 16 MB of L2 cache. Cache absorbs part of the memory traffic that would otherwise reach the main bus, so a larger L2 gives a modest lift to generation speed beyond what bandwidth alone predicts.

18

What are the TFLOPS of a Arc A770M?

The Arc A770M is rated at 33.6 TFLOPS at half precision and 16.8 TFLOPS at single precision. These are peak arithmetic ceilings rather than achievable rates, and text generation reaches only a small fraction of them because it is limited by memory bandwidth instead.

19

Does the Arc A770M support CUDA?

No. CUDA is NVIDIA-only, and the Arc A770M is a Intel card. It runs language models through ROCm, Vulkan or Metal depending on the software, which are less mature than the CUDA path — our estimates apply a penalty for that.

The other direction

Looking at it from the other side?

This page starts from the hardware. If you already know which model you want and need to know what it takes to run it, start from the model instead.

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