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Intel sells six Arc desktop cards today, from the 10GB B570 to the 32GB Arc Pro B70. I matched each one against 12 popular local models with our memory math, and found the cheapest 16GB Arc hiding in the workstation aisle.
Aliteq Team · · 12 min
Your Radeon or Arc card can make AI images. The trick is picking the right backend, because three of the seven options are dead ends. We read ComfyUI's code, AMD's ROCm docs and Intel's PyTorch guide to sort them, then matched FLUX, SD 3.5 and SDXL to each card size.
Aliteq Team · · 10 min
Yes, Arc runs local LLMs well now — but skip the old IPEX-LLM guides (Intel archived it in January 2026). Here's the current, working path: Ollama or LM Studio on the Vulkan backend, step by step.
Aliteq Team · · 7 min
12GB of VRAM for around $300 sounds like the easy answer to Nvidia's price spike. It mostly is — you just have to fight the drivers a little.
Aliteq Team · · 6 min
The 4GB RX 9050 shares a name with the 8GB card but has half the memory and half the bandwidth, and it's only sold inside prebuilt PCs. In TechSpot's 18-game test the 8GB card was 37% faster and Intel's Arc B570 was 44% faster. How to spot it, and what to buy for the same money.
Aliteq Team · · 8 min
We priced every part on Nov 3, 2026. The classic 16GB-GPU, 32GB-DDR5 build now costs about $1,870. The cheapest all-new build that runs real local models is a 12GB Arc B580 PC at $1,069, and there are two honest ways to get under $1,000.
Aliteq Team · · 9 min