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August 23, 2026No. 113
Arc B570 ยท 10GB GDDR6

Can the Arc B570 run Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct?

Fits comfortably at Q4_K_M.

Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct is 7.61B parameters. At Q4_K_M the weights are about 4.3 GiB; with the 1.5 GiB runtime reserve that is 5.8 GiB against the card's 10GB, leaving about 4.2 GiB for context.

All three quants

10GB card
QuantWeightsWith reserveVerdictHeadroom
Q4_K_Mthe everyday quant4.3 GiB5.8 GiBFits comfortably4.2 GiB
Q8_0near-lossless7.5 GiB9.0 GiBFits, tight on context1.0 GiB
FP16full weights14.2 GiB15.7 GiBOnly with CPU offloadshort 5.7 GiB

Verdict rules: fits comfortably when weights plus reserve sit within 85% of VRAM; tight when they fit with little left for context; CPU offload when they exceed VRAM by up to 2x (runs, slowly, with layers in system RAM); no beyond that. The KV cache per token depends on the model's architecture and is not modelled here.

Good match. Get the card.

The Arc B570 clears Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct at Q4_K_M and at Q8_0. Live listings below; this page was rebuilt 2026-08-23.

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About the model

Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct by Alibaba Qwen: 32,768-token native context, text, released 2024 under the Apache-2.0. Model card →

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