Written by Jakub Rusinowski · Last updated June 15, 2026
These are the strongest local models that fit entirely in 10 GB of VRAM, ranked by capability, with the quantization level and estimated tokens/sec needed to fit.
| Qwen3-Coder — Qwen3-Coder 80B-A3B (MoE) | Q4_K_M · 7.5 GB · ~400 tok/s on Intel Arc B570 |
| Qwen 3 — Qwen 3 30B-A3B (MoE) | Q4_K_M · 8 GB · ~400 tok/s on Intel Arc B570 |
| Granite 3.0 — Granite 3.0 8B Instruct | Q4_K_M · 5.5 GB · ~69 tok/s on Intel Arc B570 |
| Qwen 2.5 Family — Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct | Q4_K_M · 4.8 GB · ~79 tok/s on Intel Arc B570 |
| Qwen 3 — Qwen 3 8B | Q4_K_M · 5.5 GB · ~69 tok/s on Intel Arc B570 |
| DeepSeek R1 — DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B | Q4_K_M · 5.8 GB · ~66 tok/s on Intel Arc B570 |
| Qwen3-Coder — Qwen3-Coder 8B | Q4_K_M · 5.5 GB · ~69 tok/s on Intel Arc B570 |
| Mistral Family — Mistral NeMo 12B | Q4_K_M · 8.5 GB · ~45 tok/s on Intel Arc B570 |
| Gemma 4 (Legacy Listing — Unverified) — Gemma 4 12B | Q4_K_M · 7.8 GB · ~49 tok/s on Intel Arc B570 |
| Gemma 3 — Gemma 3 12B Instruct | Q4_K_M · 8.1 GB · ~47 tok/s on Intel Arc B570 |
| Qwen 3.5 (Legacy Listing — Unverified) — Qwen 3.5 7B | Q4_K_M · 4.8 GB · ~79 tok/s on Intel Arc B570 |
| InternLM 3 — InternLM 3 8B Instruct | Q4_K_M · 5.5 GB · ~69 tok/s on Intel Arc B570 |
| Qwen 3.5 — Qwen 3.5 9B | Q4_K_M · 6.6 GB · ~58 tok/s on Intel Arc B570 |
| Yi 1.5 Family — Yi 1.5 9B Chat | Q4_K_M · 6.2 GB · ~61 tok/s on Intel Arc B570 |
| Falcon 3 — Falcon 3 10B Instruct | Q4_K_M · 6.5 GB · ~58 tok/s on Intel Arc B570 |
Qwen3-Coder, Qwen 3, Granite 3.0, Qwen 2.5 Family, Qwen 3 all fit in 10 GB VRAM.
Intel Arc B570, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (10GB), Intel Arc B580, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12GB).