INTEL· XE-HPG

Intel Arc A550M

VRAM
8 GB
ENTRY-LEVEL
BANDWIDTH
224
GB/S
MODELS Q4
158/331
48%
7B Q4 SPEED
~10
USABLE
▸ MODEL COVERAGE @ Q448% OF ALL
▸ ESTIMATED SPEED· BY MODEL SIZE @ Q4

Average speeds at Q4 quantization. Actual performance varies by model architecture and context length.

3B
~24
TOK/S
7B
~10
TOK/S
14B
7.9GB NEEDED
32B
18.0GB NEEDED
70B
39.4GB NEEDED
▸ SPECIFICATIONS
VRAM
8 GB
BANDWIDTH
224 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
16.8 TFLOPS
TDP
60W
MEMORY
GDDR6
ARCHITECTURE
Xe-HPG
COMPUTE UNITS
128
PCIE
Gen 4 x16
46
FAST MODELS · >30 TOK/S
Real-time chat speed
121
USABLE · >10 TOK/S
Comfortable for all tasks
158
TOTAL COMPATIBLE
Fit in VRAM at Q4
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▸ COMPATIBLE MODELS· 158
S
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 100M0.1B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· CHAT
717
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
GPT-2 124M0.124B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
578
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 135M0.135B
SMOLLM·2K CTX· CHAT
531
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
bge-large-en-v1.5 335M0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· CHAT
214
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
214
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
214
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.345B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
208
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 360M0.36B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
199
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1 0.5B0.5B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT
143
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
143
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
143
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
BGE-M30.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING
126
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
Qwen3 0.6B0.6B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
119
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Large 774M0.774B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
93
TOK/S · 12% VRAM
S
Qwen 3.5 0.8B0.8B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT· CODING· MULTILINGUAL
90
TOK/S · 12% VRAM
S
Qwen3.5-0.8B0.9B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT
80
TOK/S · 13% VRAM
S
Falcon3-1B1B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT
72
TOK/S · 14% VRAM
S
InternLM2 1B1B
INTERNLM·32K CTX· CHAT
72
TOK/S · 14% VRAM
S
TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B
LLAMA·2K CTX· CHAT
65
TOK/S · 15% VRAM
S
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B
LFM·122K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· TOOL_USE
60
TOK/S · 15% VRAM
S
Llama-3.2-1B1.2B
LLAMA·4K CTX· CHAT
60
TOK/S · 15% VRAM
A
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.3B
DEEPSEEK·16K CTX· CODING
55
TOK/S · 16% VRAM
A
EXAONE-4.0-1.2B1.3B
EXAONE·64K CTX· CHAT
55
TOK/S · 16% VRAM
A
OPT 1.3B1.3B
OPT·2K CTX· CHAT
55
TOK/S · 16% VRAM
A
Phi-1 1.3B1.3B
PHI·2K CTX· CODING
55
TOK/S · 16% VRAM
A
Phi-1.5 1.3B1.3B
PHI·2K CTX· CHAT· CODING
55
TOK/S · 16% VRAM
A
granite-4.0-h-tiny 6.9B6.9BMoE
GRANITE·128K CTX· CHAT
48
TOK/S · 59% VRAM
A
Falcon-H1 1.5B1.5B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT· CODING
48
TOK/S · 18% VRAM
A
GPT-2 XL 1.5B1.5B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
48
TOK/S · 18% VRAM
A
Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B1.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE· CODING
48
TOK/S · 18% VRAM
A
Qwen2 Math 1.5B1.5B
QWEN·4K CTX· REASONING
48
TOK/S · 18% VRAM
A
Qwen 2.5 1.5B1.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· CODING
48
TOK/S · 18% VRAM
A
Yi Coder 1.5B1.5B
YI·125K CTX· CODING
48
TOK/S · 18% VRAM
A
stablelm-2-1_6b1.6B
STABLELM·4K CTX· CHAT
45
TOK/S · 18% VRAM
A
SmolLM2 1.7B1.71B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
42
TOK/S · 19% VRAM
A
Qwen3 1.7B1.7B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
42
TOK/S · 19% VRAM
A
Qwen 1.5 1.8B1.8B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
40
TOK/S · 20% VRAM
B
Moondream2 1.9B1.9B
OTHER·2K CTX· VISION· CHAT
38
TOK/S · 21% VRAM
B
Gemma 1 2B2B
GEMMA·8K CTX· CHAT
36
TOK/S · 21% VRAM
B
Granite 3.0 2B2B
GRANITE·128K CTX· CHAT· CODING
36
TOK/S · 21% VRAM
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Intel Arc A550M8 GB VRAM.

ARC A550M SPEC
BRAND
Intel
VRAM
8 GB GDDR6
BANDWIDTH
224 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
16.8 TFLOPS
FP32 COMPUTE
8.4 TFLOPS
TDP
60 W
ARCHITECTURE
Xe-HPG
▸ AI CAPABILITY
158/ 331 models @ Q4

With 8 GB VRAM and 224 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 10.7B parameters.

Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~26 tok/s.

§ 01TOP MODELS FOR ARC A550M
158 FIT · SHOWING 20
MODELSIZEVRAM Q4TOK/SAVG
SOLAR-10.7B10.7B7.0 GB728.2
Falcon3-10B10.3B6.8 GB738.2
Qwen3.5-9B9.7B6.4 GB738.3
glm-4-9b9.4B6.2 GB820.5
gemma-2-9b9.2B6.1 GB830.2
RecurrentGemma 9B9B6.0 GB835.0
Qwen 3.5 9B9B6.0 GB850.6
Yi 1.5 9B9B6.0 GB830.3
Yi Coder 9B9B6.0 GB835.8
NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v28.9B5.9 GB844.2
CodeGemma 7B8.54B5.7 GB840.2
Qwen2.5-VL-7B8.3B5.6 GB939.1
Qwen2-VL 7B8.29B5.6 GB946.6
Qwen3-8B8.2B5.5 GB943.3
Granite 3.0 8B8.17B5.5 GB936.4
Granite 3.1 8B8.17B5.5 GB938.6
Aya Expanse 8B8B5.4 GB927.8
Cogito 8B8B5.4 GB917.2
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B8B5.4 GB936.2
Gemma 3n E4B8B5.4 GB928.8