Intel Arc B580 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
For running models locally, priced in India. At 128k context the first runs 4 models fully in memory, the second 4.
In short
Both have 12 GB of memory for models; the Intel Arc B580 has 456 GB/s of bandwidth and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB 360 GB/s. At 128k context both run the same 4 models we track fully in memory. On the models both run fully in memory, the Intel Arc B580 and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB are about as fast as each other (estimated).
Updated . Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.
Specifications
| Spec | Intel Arc B580 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB |
|---|---|---|
| GPU | Arc B580 | GeForce RTX 3060 12GB |
| Memory | 12 GB GDDR6 | 12 GB GDDR6 |
| Memory bus | 192-bit | 192-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 456 GB/s | 360 GB/s |
| FP16 compute | 116.5 TFLOPS | 25.6 TFLOPS |
| Software | SYCL / oneAPI | CUDA |
| Board power | 190 W | 170 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 3060 12GB |
|---|---|---|
| Gemma 4 12B | 24tok/sQ4_K_M | 23tok/sQ4_K_M |
| Qwen 3.5 9B | 23tok/sQ4_K_M | 22tok/sQ4_K_M |
| Qwen 3.5 4B | 26tok/sQ8_0 | 25tok/sQ8_0 |
| Gemma 4 E4B | 25tok/sQ5_K_M | 24tok/sQ5_K_M |
| Qwen 3.8 27B | offload | offload |
| Qwen 3.6 27B | offload | offload |
| Gemma 4 31B | offload | offload |
| Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B | offload | offload |
| Qwen 3.5 27B | offload | offload |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B | 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 |
| gpt-oss 20B | 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 |
| Ministral 3 8B | offload | offload |
| Granite 4.2 8B | offload | offload |
| LFM2.5 8B-A1B | offload | offload |
| Llama 3.1 8B | 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 |
| Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B | 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 |
| Mistral Small 4 119B | 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 |
Questions
- Which can run bigger models, the Intel Arc B580 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB?
- At 128k context both run the same 4 models we track fully in memory.
- Which is faster for local AI, the Intel Arc B580 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB?
- On the models both run fully in memory, the Intel Arc B580 and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB are about as fast as each other (estimated).