Can the Intel Arc A770 16GB run OLMo 7B Instruct?

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At Q6_K it needs about 8.1 GB of 16.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 52.9 tok/s.

Best quant: Q6_K
Generation speed: 52.9 tok/s
Prompt processing: 3,137 tok/s
First token (1K prompt): 0.3 s
Largest safe context: 2K

Best app to run it on the Intel Arc A770 16GB

On Windows

Command line + local API · runs on llama.cpp, vLLM

Handy if you already work in Docker.

docker model run hf.co/allenai/OLMo-7B-Instruct-hf

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vLLM For one person, llama.cpp-based apps are about as fast and use smaller GGUF files.

On Linux

Docker Model Runner

Command line + local API · runs on llama.cpp, vLLM

Handy if you already work in Docker.

docker model run hf.co/allenai/OLMo-7B-Instruct-hf

vLLM For one person, llama.cpp-based apps are about as fast and use smaller GGUF files.
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How we choose: the files published for this model, your operating system and GPU, whether it fits fully in memory, and published speed tests (MLX vs llama.cpp on Apple silicon, vLLM vs llama.cpp vs Ollama on NVIDIA). Details.

Download OLMo 7B Instruct

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from Ai2, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/allenai/OLMo-7B-Instruct-hf (opens in a new tab)

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Links checked 16 hours ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 13Basic quality (D) · 13 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 57/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at Q6_K, from its editorial quality tier scaled by the quantization or precision. It’s the same on any hardware that runs this variant. Scale: A+ 85+ · A 70+ · B 55+ · C 40+ · D under 40.
Runs Runs great: How well it runs on the Intel Arc A770 16GB: speed, capped by how well it fits in memory. Runs great: 30+ tokens/s (or near the image, video or decision speed target) · Runs well: 10+ tokens/s · Slow: 3+ tokens/s · Very slow: under 3 · Won’t run: doesn’t fit even with offload. A tight fit or RAM offload caps it at Runs well; heavy offload caps it at Slow.

Match score

To order lists, each result also gets a match score out of 100 from four parts. It favors the most capable model that still runs well.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.	6.2 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when everything sits in GPU memory; fewer when part spills to system RAM.	25.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.	15.0 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.	11.7 / 15
Match score	58.0 / 100

The match score orders results; it is not shown as a grade. Quality and Runs are the two ratings in the tables.

Every quantization on the Intel Arc A770 16GB

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q2_K`	5.2 GB	16.0 GB	125 tok/s	Runs great	9Basic quality (D) · 9 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 51/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	5.8 GB	16.0 GB	98.5 tok/s	Runs great	11Basic quality (D) · 11 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 53/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	6.7 GB	16.0 GB	76.2 tok/s	Runs great	13Basic quality (D) · 13 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 55/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	7.4 GB	16.0 GB	63.0 tok/s	Runs great	13Basic quality (D) · 13 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 56/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	8.1 GB	16.0 GB	52.9 tok/s	Runs great	13Basic quality (D) · 13 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 57/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	9.8 GB	16.0 GB	38.8 tok/s	Runs great	14Basic quality (D) · 14 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 60/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	16.3 GB	16.0 GB	16.3 tok/s	Runs welloffloads to RAM	14Basic quality (D) · 14 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 40/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Memory figures assume 2K of context. Longer conversations or documents grow the KV cache.

Other hardware that runs it

14Basic quality (D) · 14 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 61/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER Q8_0 · 45.7 tok/s · Runs great
14Basic quality (D) · 14 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 61/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 F16 · 42.1 tok/s · Runs great
13Basic quality (D) · 13 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 61/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Intel Arc B580 Q6_K · 43.1 tok/s · Runs great
13Basic quality (D) · 13 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 61/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB Q6_K · 44.5 tok/s · Runs great
13Basic quality (D) · 13 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 60/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Q4_K_M · 48.5 tok/s · Runs great
14Basic quality (D) · 14 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 60/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Q8_0 · 50.0 tok/s · Runs great

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.