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Intel Arc B580 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB

For running models locally, priced in the UK. At 8k context the first runs 13 models fully in memory, the second 16.

In short

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB has more memory for models: 16 GB against 12 GB. At 8k context the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB runs 16 of the models we track fully in memory and the Intel Arc B580 13; only the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB holds Devstral Small 2 24B. On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is about 1.2× as fast as the Intel Arc B580 (estimated, median across models). In the UK the Intel Arc B580 costs £323 at eBay and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB £520 at eBay: the Intel Arc B580 is £197 cheaper.

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

Intel Arc B580

£323

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB

£520

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Specifications

SpecIntel Arc B580NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB
GPUArc B580GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB
Memory12 GB GDDR616 GB GDDR7
Memory bus192-bit128-bit
Memory bandwidth456 GB/s448 GB/s
FP16 compute116.5 TFLOPS47 TFLOPS
SoftwareSYCL / oneAPICUDA
Board power190 W180 W
PCIe generationGen 4Gen 5
PCIe lanesx8x8

What each runs

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

ModelIntel Arc B580NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB
Devstral Small 2 24Boffload18tok/sQ4_K_M
gpt-oss 20Boffload63tok/sMXFP4
Gemma 4 12B22tok/sQ6_K21tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B23tok/sQ8_028tok/sQ8_0
Mistral Small 3.2 24Boffload18tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen3 14B22tok/sQ4_K_M21tok/sQ6_K
Ministral 3 14B21tok/sQ5_K_M18tok/sQ8_0
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B23tok/sQ8_028tok/sQ8_0
Qwen3 8B23tok/sQ8_028tok/sQ8_0
Phi-4 14B22tok/sQ4_K_M20tok/sQ6_K
Qwen 3.5 4B48tok/sQ8_058tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B22tok/sQ8_027tok/sQ8_0
Granite 4.2 8B21tok/sQ8_026tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 E4B27tok/sQ8_033tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B86tok/sQ8_0114tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B30tok/sQ6_K36tok/sQ6_K
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
Gemma 4 26B-A4Boffloadoffload
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3Boffloadoffload
GLM 4.7 Flashoffloadoffload
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 32Boffloadoffload
Gemma 3 27Boffloadoffload
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32Boffloadoffload
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
Llama 3.3 70Bwon't runwon't run

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the Intel Arc B580 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB?
Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB to run bigger models. Choose the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB for speed. Choose the Intel Arc B580 to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the Intel Arc B580 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB?
At 8k context the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB runs 16 of the models we track fully in memory and the Intel Arc B580 13; only the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB holds Devstral Small 2 24B.
Which is faster for local AI, the Intel Arc B580 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB?
On the models both run fully in memory, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is about 1.2× 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 5060 Ti 16GB?
In the UK the Intel Arc B580 costs £323 at eBay and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB £520 at eBay: the Intel Arc B580 is £197 cheaper.

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