StarCoder2 15B (base) on Intel Arc A770 16GB

Can the Intel Arc A770 16GB run StarCoder2 15B (base)?

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At Q4_K_M it needs about 11.8 GB of 16.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 32.9 tok/s.

Best quant: Q4_K_M
Generation speed: 32.9 tok/s
Prompt processing: 1,354 tok/s
First token (1K prompt): 0.8 s
Largest safe context: 16K

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

On Windows

llama.cpp

Command line + local API · runs on llama.cpp

Supports Intel Arc through SYCL and Vulkan.
Usually the first to support new model architectures.

llama-server -hf QuantFactory/starcoder2-15b-GGUF:Q4_K_M

LM Studio Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.
Ollama Intel GPU support here is experimental (Vulkan).

On Linux

llama.cpp

Command line + local API · runs on llama.cpp

Supports Intel Arc through SYCL and Vulkan.
Usually the first to support new model architectures.

llama-server -hf QuantFactory/starcoder2-15b-GGUF:Q4_K_M

LM Studio Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.
Ollama Intel GPU support here is experimental (Vulkan).

Want an agent? StarCoder2 15B (base) supports tool use, so you can pair a llama.cpp or MLX LM server with one of these. Apps that run on this computer come first.

Coding agents

Personal assistants

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 StarCoder2 15B (base)

Recommended for the Intel Arc A770 16GB: Q4_K_M. Every other quantization has its own download link in the table below.

Quickest · Ollama

One command downloads a ready-to-run version and starts a chat.

Get Ollama at ollama.com/download (opens in a new tab) · model page (opens in a new tab)

ollama run starcoder2:15b-q4_K_M

Quantized files · GGUF

Works in LM Studio, llama.cpp, Jan and Ollama. No sign-in needed.

Download the Q4_K_M file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/QuantFactory/starcoder2-15b-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/QuantFactory/starcoder2-15b-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/bigcode/starcoder2-15b (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Links checked 7 hours ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 30Basic quality (D) · 30 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 67/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at Q4_K_M, 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.	13.7 / 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.	13.6 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.	15.0 / 15
Match score	67.3 / 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`	8.5 GB	16.0 GB	54.0 tok/s	Runs great	22Basic quality (D) · 22 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 62/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	9.9 GB	16.0 GB	42.5 tok/s	Runs great	26Basic quality (D) · 26 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 66/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	11.8 GB	16.0 GB	32.9 tok/s	Runs great	30Basic quality (D) · 30 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 67/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	13.4 GB	16.0 GB	27.2 tok/s	Runs well	31Basic quality (D) · 31 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 66/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	15.2 GB	16.0 GB	22.8 tok/s	Runs welltight fit	31Basic quality (D) · 31 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 64/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	19.0 GB	16.0 GB	8.6 tok/s	Slowoffloads to RAM	32Basic quality (D) · 32 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 46/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	34.0 GB	16.0 GB	1.9 tok/s	Very slowheavy RAM offload	32Basic quality (D) · 32 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 36/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Memory figures assume 8K of context. Longer conversations or documents grow the KV cache.

Other hardware that runs it

32Basic quality (D) · 32 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 69/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Q8_0 · 39.5 tok/s · Runs great
31Basic quality (D) · 31 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 69/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Q6_K · 44.1 tok/s · Runs great
31Basic quality (D) · 31 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 69/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Q6_K · 49.9 tok/s · Runs great
31Basic quality (D) · 31 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 68/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Q5_K_M · 42.7 tok/s · Runs great
31Basic quality (D) · 31 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 68/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Q5_K_M · 46.8 tok/s · Runs great
31Basic quality (D) · 31 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 68/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Q5_K_M · 56.9 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.