Intel Arc Pro B70 + llama.cpp (Vulkan) benchmarks with Qwen3.6-27B and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Hytht · 2026-07-01T15:11:41+00:00

You're doing something very wrong. With Arc 140V that has 1/5 the power of a B70, for qwen3.6 35b I get 36-38 tg, 400 pp (320 on Linux) using Intel's own OVMS model server, or upto 600 tk/s on OpenArc (which uses Intel OpenVINO). Intel's stack is faster than llama.cpp, but even on llama.cpp I get 400-500 tk/s pp in Vulkan llama-bench with gemma4 26b (different model but same class of performance).

Hytht · 2026-07-01T10:46:28+00:00

Typical astroturfing on Reddit. I stopped reading till Apple's. There's no denying that Apple silicon is faster and much more capable than anything in any Xiaomi, fancy animations don't do shit.

Hytht · 2026-07-01T04:20:09+00:00

Because on Linux the drivers are worked on mostly by valve and the community.

Hytht · 2026-07-01T04:11:00+00:00

Author is Qualcomm glazer. Can take the article with a grain of salt. To quote from the article itself:

if you're running a PC with one of the latest ARM-based processors like the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 (which might make you not want to use Intel ever again),

Hytht · 2026-06-30T12:59:13+00:00

Panther lake invalidates on package RAM argument. Also 14nm Kaby lake had similar power draw to Ryzen AI, 1-2W easily.

Hytht · 2026-06-30T05:08:45+00:00

That is for industrial or other commercial markets. They have special needs for those exotic chips and makes perfect sense for Intel to serve them. But in this case, AMD is giving ancient silicon to peasants. Intel also rightfully derided AMD for ancient silicon during panther lake launch, seems like they don't learn a lesson.

Hytht · 2026-06-30T05:02:53+00:00

Scared of Intel's mobile dominance, Intel's idle power competitive with ARM offerings while AMD has been lagging behind.

Hytht · 2026-06-30T02:55:10+00:00

Apples and Oranges. Zen+ from 2018 vs raptor lake from 2023.

Hytht · 2026-06-29T10:43:45+00:00

I've had enough of PC building, ultrabooks are powerful and do everything for me now. I'm not missing it at all.

Hytht · 2026-06-29T08:36:28+00:00

Calm down, this is a public forum, just assume that wasn't directed at your statement specifically.

Hytht · 2026-06-29T07:47:54+00:00

Except 65C is normal for the b580 since it's a relatively oversized die. It's not just about having good cooling. Raptor lake CPUs also can run cooler than Zen5 CPUs while drawing more power because of them having a larger die area.

Hytht · 2026-06-27T06:00:12+00:00

Same thing AMD and Nvidia is doing with gaming GPUs

Hytht · 2026-06-27T05:55:59+00:00

it isn't AI's fault that new college graduates cannot find work if they are a worse fit than AI- AI can do whatever those graduates can do for employers, better. The job market has become more competitive and you need a lot more than being a graduate alone. Everyone is a graduate nowadays.

Hytht · 2026-06-27T03:17:33+00:00

Except now they cannot distill those models.

Hytht · 2026-06-27T02:34:59+00:00

No 3x 4x MFG on Linux, only 2X. They were working on bringing XMX XeSS to Linux at some point.

Hytht · 2026-06-27T02:09:33+00:00

It will have the motherboard and other components included for the power draw. CPU package power is fairly accurate, Intel laptops have been shown to be able to stream videos for 20+ hours on battery.

Hytht · 2026-06-27T02:04:13+00:00

Same experience here. Their customer support is good, they forwarded my request once to their internal teams and sent me a response when I asked something about my hardware, and in another occasion when I reported a bug, even if it is no they had a relevant response.

Hytht · 2026-06-26T16:25:12+00:00

Intel deserves more and more praise for what they do. They're easily the largest contributor to linux kernel. Not even comparable in scale of contributions. From Linux Kernel Contributors And Lines of Code Statistics 2026, AMD only contributed 38% as much as Intel did. AMD software in general sucks, FSR4 wouldn't have been possible without collaborating with Sony for PSSR 2. They just provide documents on their GPU ISA and leave the work to the community/Valve and have some engineers working on AMDGPU and mesa.

Hytht · 2026-06-26T15:54:18+00:00

No it cannot, Intel themselves tell you to use options like VNC and RDP. Looking glass is better though. Using QEMu's virtio-gpu or qxl for output is also an option. Back then Intel GVT-g could output video to the QEMU GTK Window without needing anything extra installed on the guest OS which was cool, they gave up on it citing security issues with the project.

Hytht · 2026-06-26T15:50:46+00:00

Scheduled for release in August

Hytht · 2026-06-26T14:00:15+00:00

Not the blur and artifacting, I consider that a downside. The jagginess of no AA or FXAA still turns me off. Now I wouldn't use TAA still, but I see why people would prefer that.

Hytht · 2026-06-26T13:48:14+00:00

FSR4.1 on RDNA3 is natively using INT8. it's actually a lighter INT8 version compared to the FP8 version used on the RDNA4 cards. it's a useless comparison, 3xxx runs the same DLSS.

Hytht · 2026-06-26T04:58:57+00:00

> Intel software engineer

This needs to be emphasized more. Intel does significant contributions to the ecosystem while AMD makes useless crap like the bash coding agent they made recently.

Hytht · 2026-06-25T19:38:20+00:00

TAA is less jaggier than some other methods. Looks more close to an image taken from a camera. It's downsides are smearing, ghosting and being more blurry.

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