Intel Arc B580 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
For running models locally, priced in Germany. 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 Germany the Intel Arc B580 costs 360 € at Amazon and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 1.850 € at eBay: the Intel Arc B580 is 1.490 € cheaper.
Updated . Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.
Specifications
| Spec | Intel Arc B580 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 |
|---|---|---|
| GPU | Arc B580 | GeForce RTX 3090 |
| Memory | 12 GB GDDR6 | 24 GB GDDR6X |
| Memory bus | 192-bit | 384-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 456 GB/s | 936 GB/s |
| FP16 compute | 116.5 TFLOPS | 71 TFLOPS |
| Software | SYCL / oneAPI | CUDA |
| Board power | 190 W | 350 W |
| PCIe generation | Gen 4 | Gen 4 |
| PCIe lanes | x8 | x16 |
What each runs
Estimated decode speed with the most precise quant that fits each one est.
| Model | Intel Arc B580 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 |
|---|---|---|
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B | offload | 59tok/sQ5_K_M |
| gpt-oss 20B | offload | 62tok/sMXFP4 |
| Gemma 4 12B | 24tok/sQ4_K_M | 38tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.5 9B | 23tok/sQ4_K_M | 42tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen 3.5 4B | 26tok/sQ8_0 | 66tok/sQ8_0 |
| Ministral 3 8B | offload | 25tok/sQ4_K_M |
| Gemma 4 E4B | 25tok/sQ5_K_M | 48tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 8B-A1B | offload | 46tok/sQ8_0 |
| Llama 3.1 8B | offload | 25tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Qwen2.5 0.5B | 107tok/sQ8_0 | 271tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3.5 0.8B | 93tok/sQ8_0 | 238tok/sQ8_0 |
| Qwen3.5 2B | 74tok/sQ5_K_M | 189tok/sQ5_K_M |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B | 40tok/sQ8_0 | 103tok/sQ8_0 |
| MiniCPM5 2B | 27tok/sQ8_0 | 70tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 2.6B | 22tok/sQ6_K | 53tok/sQ8_0 |
| LFM2.5 VL 3B | 22tok/sQ6_K | 53tok/sQ8_0 |
| Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking | offload | 76tok/sQ8_0 |
| GLM 4.6V Flash | offload | 38tok/sQ8_0 |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B | offload | 37tok/sQ8_0 |
| granite vision 4.1 4b | offload | 40tok/sQ8_0 |
| granite 4.2 3b | offload | 40tok/sQ8_0 |
| Kimi VL A3B | offload | 48tok/smlx-8bit |
| GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking | offload | 34tok/smlx-8bit |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B | offload | 25tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512 | offload | 25tok/sQ4_K_M |
| Qwen 3.8 27B | offload | offload |
| Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B | won't run | offload |
| Qwen 3.6 27B | offload | offload |
| Gemma 4 31B | offload | offload |
| Mistral Small 4 119B | won't run | offload |
| Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Qwen 3.5 27B | offload | offload |
| Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B | offload | offload |
| GLM 4.7 Flash | offload | offload |
| Devstral Small 2 24B | offload | offload |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Kimi Linear 48B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Gemma 3 27B | offload | offload |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B | offload | offload |
| Ministral 3 14B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 14B | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B | offload | offload |
| Qwen3 8B | offload | offload |
| Phi-4 14B | offload | offload |
| Granite 4.2 8B | offload | offload |
| LFM2.5 24B A2B | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B | offload | offload |
| Devstral Small 2507 | offload | offload |
| Magistral Small 2506 | offload | offload |
| Magistral Small 2507 | offload | offload |
| Magistral Small 2509 | offload | offload |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 5.3 Flash | won't run | won't run |
| Qwen 3.8 Flash Next | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M2.7 | won't run | won't run |
| Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B | won't run | won't run |
| Qwen3 Coder Next | won't run | won't run |
| gpt-oss 120B | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.5 Air | won't run | won't run |
| Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B | won't run | won't run |
| Qwen3 32B | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B | won't run | won't run |
| Llama 3.3 70B | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek R1 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V3 0324 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V3.1 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | won't run | won't run |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | won't run | won't run |
| Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.5V | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.6V | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 4.7 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 5.1 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 5.2 | won't run | won't run |
| GLM 5.3 | won't run | won't run |
| Kimi K2 | won't run | won't run |
| Kimi K2 Instruct 0905 | won't run | won't run |
| Kimi K2 Thinking | won't run | won't run |
| Kimi K2.5 | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M2 | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M2.1 | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M2.5 | won't run | won't run |
| MiniMax M3 | won't run | won't run |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | won't run | won't run |
| granite 4.2 30b | won't run | won'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 Germany the Intel Arc B580 costs 360 € at Amazon and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 1.850 € at eBay: the Intel Arc B580 is 1.490 € cheaper.
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