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Intel Arc B580 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

For running models locally, priced in Canada. At 128k context the first runs 11 models fully in memory, the second 25.

In short

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 has more memory for models: 24 GB against 12 GB. At 128k context the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 runs 25 of the models we track fully in memory and the Intel Arc B580 11; only the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 holds Gemma 4 26B-A4B. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 is about 2.5× as fast as the Intel Arc B580 (estimated, median across models). In Canada the Intel Arc B580 costs $550 at eBay and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 $2,800 at Amazon: the Intel Arc B580 is $2,250 cheaper.

Updated . Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.

Intel Arc B580

$550

eBay

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

$2,800

Amazon

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Specifications

SpecIntel Arc B580NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
GPUArc B580GeForce RTX 3090
Memory12 GB GDDR624 GB GDDR6X
Memory bus192-bit384-bit
Memory bandwidth456 GB/s936 GB/s
FP16 compute116.5 TFLOPS71 TFLOPS
SoftwareSYCL / oneAPICUDA
Board power190 W350 W
PCIe generationGen 4Gen 4
PCIe lanesx8x16

What each runs

Estimated decode speed with the most precise quant that fits each one est.

ModelIntel Arc B580NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
Gemma 4 26B-A4Boffload59tok/sQ5_K_M
gpt-oss 20Boffload62tok/sMXFP4
Gemma 4 12B24tok/sQ4_K_M38tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B23tok/sQ4_K_M42tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 4B26tok/sQ8_066tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8Boffload25tok/sQ4_K_M
Gemma 4 E4B25tok/sQ5_K_M48tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1Boffload46tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8Boffload25tok/sQ5_K_M
Qwen2.5 0.5B107tok/sQ8_0271tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 0.8B93tok/sQ8_0238tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3.5 2B74tok/sQ5_K_M189tok/sQ5_K_M
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B40tok/sQ8_0103tok/sQ8_0
MiniCPM5 2B27tok/sQ8_070tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 2.6B22tok/sQ6_K53tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 VL 3B22tok/sQ6_K53tok/sQ8_0
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinkingoffload76tok/sQ8_0
GLM 4.6V Flashoffload38tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7Boffload37tok/sQ8_0
granite vision 4.1 4boffload40tok/sQ8_0
granite 4.2 3boffload40tok/sQ8_0
Kimi VL A3Boffload48tok/smlx-8bit
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinkingoffload34tok/smlx-8bit
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8Boffload25tok/sQ5_K_M
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512offload25tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen 3.8 27Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Bwon't runoffload
Qwen 3.6 27Boffloadoffload
Gemma 4 31Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 4 119Bwon't runoffload
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 27Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3Boffloadoffload
GLM 4.7 Flashoffloadoffload
Devstral Small 2 24Boffloadoffload
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Gemma 3 27Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 3.2 24Boffloadoffload
Ministral 3 14Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 14Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 8Boffloadoffload
Phi-4 14Boffloadoffload
Granite 4.2 8Boffloadoffload
LFM2.5 24B A2Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14Boffloadoffload
Devstral Small 2507offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2506offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2507offloadoffload
Magistral Small 2509offloadoffload
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon't runwon't run
GLM 5.3 Flashwon't runwon't run
Qwen 3.8 Flash Nextwon't runwon't run
MiniMax M2.7won't runwon't run
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12Bwon't runwon't run
Qwen3 Coder Nextwon't runwon't run
gpt-oss 120Bwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.5 Airwon't runwon't run
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3Bwon't runwon't run
Qwen3 32Bwon't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Bwon't runwon't run
Llama 3.3 70Bwon't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1won't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 0528won't runwon't run
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70Bwon't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3 0324won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.1won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V3.2won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731won't runwon't run
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Expwon't runwon't run
Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512won't runwon't run
GLM 4.5Vwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.6Vwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.7won't runwon't run
GLM 5.1won't runwon't run
GLM 5.2won't runwon't run
GLM 5.3won't runwon't run
Kimi K2won't runwon't run
Kimi K2 Instruct 0905won't runwon't run
Kimi K2 Thinkingwon't runwon't run
Kimi K2.5won't runwon't run
MiniMax M2won't runwon't run
MiniMax M2.1won't runwon't run
MiniMax M2.5won't runwon't run
MiniMax M3won't runwon't run
Mistral Medium 3.5 128Bwon't runwon't run
granite 4.2 30bwon't runwon't run

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the Intel Arc B580 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090?
Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 to run bigger models. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 for speed. Choose the Intel Arc B580 to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the Intel Arc B580 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090?
At 128k context the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 runs 25 of the models we track fully in memory and the Intel Arc B580 11; only the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 holds Gemma 4 26B-A4B.
Which is faster for local AI, the Intel Arc B580 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 is about 2.5× as fast as the Intel Arc B580 (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the Intel Arc B580 and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090?
In Canada the Intel Arc B580 costs $550 at eBay and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 $2,800 at Amazon: the Intel Arc B580 is $2,250 cheaper.

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