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Can the Intel Arc A380 run StarCoder2 3B?

17Basic quality (D) · 17 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.

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At Q6_K it needs about 3.6 GB of 6.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 39.9 tok/s.

Best quant
Q6_K
Generation speed
39.9 tok/s
Prompt processing
1,488 tok/s
First token (1K prompt)
0.7 s
Largest safe context
16K

Best app to run it on the Intel Arc A380

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/starcoder2-3b-GGUF:Q6_K
  • 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/starcoder2-3b-GGUF:Q6_K
  • LM Studio Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.
  • Ollama Intel GPU support here is experimental (Vulkan).

Want an agent? StarCoder2 3B 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 3B

Recommended for the Intel Arc A380: Q6_K. 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 starcoder2:3b-q6_K

Quantized files · GGUF

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

Download the Q6_K file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/QuantFactory/starcoder2-3b-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/QuantFactory/starcoder2-3b-GGUF:Q6_K

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/bigcode/starcoder2-3b (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Links checked 1 day ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 17Basic quality (D) · 17 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.
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 A380: 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.8.0 / 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.14.0 / 15
Match score62.0 / 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 A380

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Runs Quality Download
Q2_K 2.4 GB 6.0 GB 94.5 tok/s Runs great 12Basic quality (D) · 12 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 54/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q3_K_M 2.6 GB 6.0 GB 74.4 tok/s Runs great 15Basic quality (D) · 15 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 56/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q4_K_M 3.0 GB 6.0 GB 57.6 tok/s Runs great 17Basic quality (D) · 17 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 59/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q5_K_M 3.3 GB 6.0 GB 47.6 tok/s Runs great 17Basic quality (D) · 17 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 60/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q6_K 3.6 GB 6.0 GB 39.9 tok/s Runs great 17Basic quality (D) · 17 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. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q8_0 4.4 GB 6.0 GB 29.3 tok/s Runs well 18Basic quality (D) · 18 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. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
F16 7.2 GB 6.0 GB 11.0 tok/s Runs welloffloads to RAM 18Basic quality (D) · 18 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 8K of context. Longer conversations or documents grow the KV cache.

Other hardware that runs it

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.

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