llamaperf

Qwen3 4B

on Intel Arc B580 12GB · llama.cpp

Intel hardware
Sep 29, 2026
Throughput
12.7 t/s gen · 260.5 tokens/s prompt processing (prefill)Prompt processing measures input prefill speed; it does not tell you the time to first token.
Quant
Q4_K_M (GGUF)

Summary

User reports Qwen3 4B at 260.52 t/s prompt processing and 12.71 t/s generation on an Intel Arc B580. Setup is llama.cpp (IPEX-LLM build) with Q4_K_M GGUF, all 99 layers offloaded to the GPU via SYCL. Compared against stock Ollama on the same model, which reached 14.23 t/s prompt and 6.20 t/s generation, making the Arc GPU about 18.3x faster at prompt processing and 2.05x faster at generation.