can you run local AI on integrated graphics? Modern iGPUs are better than you think

You don't need a discrete graphics card to get GPU-accelerated local AI. A modern AMD Radeon iGPU shares your system RAM as VRAM and runs 7B models… Aliteq Lena Fischer · AI & Local Compute Editor

Modern AMD iGPUs run local AI well — Radeon 780M/890M via Vulkan or ROCm offload.

Radeon 780M: ~12-20 tok/s on 7B (Q4), ~30-50 tok/s on 3B models.

Radeon 890M: ~18-25 tok/s on 7B; the most capable iGPU — 30B+ with enough RAM.

iGPU = your DDR5 IS the VRAM — 32-64GB of system RAM becomes GPU-accessible memory.

It's memory-bandwidth-bound — faster RAM (DDR5-8000+) directly raises tokens/second.

Faster than CPU-only, cheaper than a discrete GPU — a great middle path.

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