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Intel Arc Pro B60 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

For running models locally, priced in the UK. At 64k context the first runs 22 models fully in memory, the second 10.

In short

The Intel Arc Pro B60 has more memory for models: 24 GB against 16 GB. At 64k context the Intel Arc Pro B60 runs 22 of the models we track fully in memory and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 10; only the Intel Arc Pro B60 holds Qwen 3.8 27B. On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is about 1.7× as fast as the Intel Arc Pro B60 (estimated, median across models). In the UK the Intel Arc Pro B60 costs £742 at eBay and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT £729 at Amazon: the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is £13 cheaper.

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

Intel Arc Pro B60

£742

eBay

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AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

£729

Amazon

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Specifications

SpecIntel Arc Pro B60AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
GPUArc Pro B60Radeon RX 9070 XT
Memory24 GB GDDR616 GB GDDR6
Memory bus192-bit256-bit
Memory bandwidth456 GB/s640 GB/s
FP16 compute98.5 TFLOPS195 TFLOPS
SoftwareSYCL / oneAPIROCm
Board power200 W304 W
PCIe generationGen 5Gen 5
PCIe lanesx8x16

What each runs

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

ModelIntel Arc Pro B60AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
Qwen 3.8 27B11tok/sUD-Q4_K_Moffload
Qwen 3.6 27B11tok/sQ4_K_Moffload
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B39tok/sUD-Q4_K_Moffload
Qwen 3.5 27B11tok/sQ4_K_Moffload
Gemma 4 26B-A4B26tok/sUD-Q5_K_Moffload
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B39tok/sQ4_K_Moffload
GLM 4.7 Flash19tok/sQ4_K_Moffload
gpt-oss 20B31tok/sMXFP452tok/sMXFP4
Gemma 4 12B16tok/sQ8_025tok/sQ8_0
Qwen 3.5 9B19tok/sQ8_030tok/sQ8_0
Gemma 3 27B10tok/sQ4_K_Moffload
Ministral 3 14B10tok/sQ6_Koffload
Qwen3 14B10tok/sQ6_Koffload
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B12tok/sQ8_024tok/sQ4_K_M
Qwen3 8B12tok/sQ8_024tok/sQ4_K_M
Phi-4 14B10tok/sQ4_K_Moffload
Qwen 3.5 4B34tok/sQ8_053tok/sQ8_0
Ministral 3 8B13tok/sQ8_025tok/sQ4_K_M
Granite 4.2 8B11tok/sQ8_0offload
Gemma 4 E4B23tok/sQ8_035tok/sQ8_0
LFM2.5 8B-A1B29tok/sQ8_049tok/sQ8_0
Llama 3.1 8B15tok/sQ6_K25tok/sQ5_K_M
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10Boffloadwon't run
Qwen3 Coder Nextoffloadwon't run
Gemma 4 31Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 4 119Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3Boffloadwon't run
Devstral Small 2 24Boffloadoffload
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Kimi Linear 48B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3Boffloadoffload
Qwen3 32Boffloadoffload
Mistral Small 3.2 24Boffloadoffload
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
gpt-oss 120Bwon't runwon't run
GLM 4.5 Airwon't runwon't run
Llama 3.3 70Bwon't runwon't run

Questions

Which is better for local AI, the Intel Arc Pro B60 or the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT?
Choose the Intel Arc Pro B60 to run bigger models. Choose the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT for speed. Choose the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT to spend less.
Which can run bigger models, the Intel Arc Pro B60 or the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT?
At 64k context the Intel Arc Pro B60 runs 22 of the models we track fully in memory and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 10; only the Intel Arc Pro B60 holds Qwen 3.8 27B.
Which is faster for local AI, the Intel Arc Pro B60 or the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT?
On the models both run fully in memory, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is about 1.7× as fast as the Intel Arc Pro B60 (estimated, median across models).
What is the price difference between the Intel Arc Pro B60 and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT?
In the UK the Intel Arc Pro B60 costs £742 at eBay and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT £729 at Amazon: the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is £13 cheaper.

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