Intel Arc A770 16GB vs M5 16GB for local LLMs
4 reports on the Intel Arc A770 16GB and 2 on the M5 16GB
Which is faster for local LLMs?
On Qwen3.8 27B at 3-bit, the Intel Arc A770 16GB runs at 12.0 tokens per second (one run) and the M5 16GB at 9.0 (one run). Those are community reports whose engines and settings differ, so the gap is a rough sign, not a controlled measure of the two cards. Memory bandwidth, which caps how fast a card can write, is 3.6x higher on the Intel Arc A770 16GB (560 GB/s on the Intel Arc A770 16GB, 154 on the M5 16GB).
- Memory
- 16GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 560 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 39.3 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 4
- Memory
- 16GB unified
- Memory bandwidth
- 154 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- not on record
- Reports
- 2
Measured on both
Median tokens per second from plain runs (one device, one request, no speculative decoding, the whole model in the device's memory) of the same model size at the same quant level. Engines and context lengths can still differ between the runs. How to read these
| Model | Intel Arc A770 16GB | M5 16GB |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B3-bit | 12.0one run | 9.0one run |
Estimated by the calculator
The quant the calculator recommends for each card and its estimated speed at a 32,768-token context with 32 GB of system RAM, from memory bandwidth and the model's shape. Where a model was also measured above, the measurement wins.
| Model | Intel Arc A770 16GB | M5 16GB |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | 36.5 t/sQ2_K | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | 120.8 t/sQ2_K | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 36.5 t/sQ2_K | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 81.4 t/sQ3_K_S | doesn't fit at these settings |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 552B · 16B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
Change the context, RAM or model in the calculator: Intel Arc A770 16GB · M5 16GB
Every report on each card, with its source: Intel Arc A770 16GB · M5 16GB