Can the Intel Arc A770 16GB Run Gemma 2 9B?
Runs
Yes. Gemma 2 9B at Q4_K_M is a 5.8 GB download (Hugging Face file listing for bartowski/gemma-2-9b-it-GGUF), and the Intel Arc A770 16GB has 16 GB of VRAM, leaving about 10.2 GB for the KV cache and runtime. Published runs put generation at a median of 23.6 tokens per second across 2 cited measurements. Fastest cited run: diunox/arc-inference-bench (GitHub).
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Published runs for Gemma 2 9B on the Intel Arc A770 16GB
| Generation | Quant | Runtime | Context | Source | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31.7 tok/s | INT4 | openvino | — | diunox/arc-inference-bench (GitHub)labelled "gemma2:9b" | 2026-03-16 |
| 15.4 tok/s | q4_K_M | llama.cpp | — | diunox/arc-inference-bench (GitHub)labelled "gemma2:9b" | 2026-03-15 |
More about this pair
How much VRAM does Gemma 2 9B need?
The Q4_K_M file is 5.8 GB. Add roughly 1.5 GB for the runtime and an ~8K-token context, so about 7.3 GB of VRAM holds it comfortably. Longer contexts grow the KV cache and need more.
What speed does Gemma 2 9B reach on the Intel Arc A770 16GB?
The fastest published run is 31.7 tokens per second (diunox/arc-inference-bench (GitHub), INT4, openvino); the median of 2 cited runs is 23.6 tok/s. Generation reads every weight once per token, so the Intel Arc A770 16GB's 560 GB/s of memory bandwidth divided by the 5.76 GB file puts the theoretical ceiling near 97 tokens per second. That is an upper bound, not a speed estimate: kernel, launch and compute overhead keep real runs below it, and SpecPicks rejects any published figure above it.
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Gemma 2 9B on other GPUs
- RTX 4060 — Runs, 18 tok/s (1 run)
- RTX 3060 Ti — Runs, 23.8 tok/s (1 run)
- RTX 3060 12GB — Runs
- Intel Arc B580 — Runs
- RTX 4070 SUPER — Runs
- RTX 4060 Ti 16GB — Runs
- RTX 5060 Ti 16GB — Runs
- Radeon RX 9070 XT — Runs
- RTX 4070 Ti SUPER — Runs
- RTX 4080 — Runs
- RTX 5070 Ti — Runs
- RTX 5080 — Runs
- Tesla P40 24GB — Runs
- RTX 3090 — Runs
- Radeon RX 7900 XTX — Runs
- RTX 4090 — Runs
- RTX 5090 — Runs
- RTX A6000 48GB — Runs
- RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 48GB — Runs
- Instinct MI210 64GB — Runs
- RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB — Runs
Other models on the Intel Arc A770 16GB
- Llama 3.2 1B — Runs
- Llama 3.2 3B — Runs, 64.2 tok/s (1 run)
- Mistral 7B — Runs, 41.5 tok/s median
- Qwen2.5 7B — Runs
- Llama 3.1 8B — Runs, 38.7 tok/s (1 run)
- DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama 8B — Runs
- Qwen3 8B — Runs, 33.3 tok/s median
- Gemma 3 12B — Runs
- Qwen2.5 14B — Runs, 21.4 tok/s (1 run)
- DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 14B — Runs, 13.4 tok/s (1 run)
- Qwen3 14B — Runs, 23.2 tok/s median
- Phi-4 14B — Runs, 22.3 tok/s median
- gpt-oss-20b — Runs
- Gemma 3 27B — Offload
- Gemma 2 27B — Offload
- Qwen3 30B-A3B — Offload
- Qwen3 32B — Offload
- Qwen2.5 32B — Offload
- DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 32B — Offload
- Qwen3 32B (Q6_K) — Offload
- Qwen2.5 32B (Q6_K) — Offload
- DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 32B (Q6_K) — Offload
- Gemma 3 27B (Q8_0) — Offload
- Llama 3.1 70B — Offload
- Llama 3.3 70B — Offload
- DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama 70B — Offload
How the checks work
The fit is the Q4_K_M file size against the card's VRAM, with 1.5 GB kept for the runtime and an ~8K context. A published run counts only if the pair fits, the run is Q4-class, its source does not call it an estimate, it is under the bandwidth ceiling (memory bandwidth ÷ GB read per token: the whole file for a dense model, only the active experts' weights for a mixture-of-experts model such as gpt-oss-20b or Qwen3 30B-A3B, which is why those can post figures above bandwidth ÷ file size), it is not slower than the same card on a model twice its size, a single run is not slower than the same card on a larger dense model, and it is not one figure pasted across many cards. The whole matrix is downloadable as a CSV under CC BY 4.0.
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