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Intel Arc A770 16GB vs NVIDIA Tesla P100 16GB for local LLMs

4 reports on the Intel Arc A770 16GB and 13 on the NVIDIA Tesla P100 16GB

Which is faster for local LLMs?

On Qwen3.8 27B at 3-bit, the Intel Arc A770 16GB has 12.0 generation tokens/s (one run); the NVIDIA Tesla P100 16GB has 10.0 generation tokens/s (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 31% higher on the NVIDIA Tesla P100 16GB (560 GB/s on the Intel Arc A770 16GB, 732 on the NVIDIA Tesla P100 16GB).

Intel Arc A770 16GB
Memory
16GB
Memory bandwidth
560 GB/s
FP16 compute
39.3 TFLOPS
Reports
4
NVIDIA Tesla P100 16GB
Memory
16GB
Memory bandwidth
732 GB/s
FP16 compute
19 TFLOPS
Reports
13

Measured on both

Generation and prompt processing speeds 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 bit class. Each side shows the engines and reported context behind its median. Context can mean a configured window or prompt depth, so these are community comparisons with differing settings. How to read these

ModelIntel Arc A770 16GBNVIDIA Tesla P100 16GB
Qwen3.8 27B3-bit12.0one runengine not statedcontext not stated10.0one runengine not statedcontext not stated

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.

ModelIntel Arc A770 16GBNVIDIA Tesla P100 16GB
Qwen3.8 27B36.5 t/sQ2_K47.7 t/sQ2_K
Qwen3.8 125B · 6B activedoesn't fit at these settingsdoesn't fit at these settings
DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B activedoesn't fit at these settingsdoesn't fit at these settings
Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active120.8 t/sQ2_K157.9 t/sQ2_K
Qwen3.6 27B36.5 t/sQ2_K47.7 t/sQ2_K
Gemma 4 26B · 4B active81.4 t/sQ3_K_S106.4 t/sQ3_K_S
GLM-5.3 320B · 18B activedoesn't fit at these settingsdoesn't fit at these settings

Change the context, RAM or model in the calculator: Intel Arc A770 16GB · NVIDIA Tesla P100 16GB

Every report on each card, with its source: Intel Arc A770 16GB · NVIDIA Tesla P100 16GB

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