Intel Arc Pro B70: Sub-$1000 GPU with 32GB VRAM Makes Serious Local Inference Accessible

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Intel's Arc Pro B70 ships at $949 with 32GB GDDR6 on a 256-bit bus (608 GB/s bandwidth), making it the first sub-$1000 GPU with enough VRAM for serious local LLM inference. It runs Qwen 3.5 27B at 4-bit quantization at ~13 tok/s single-request, with multi-GPU setups hitting 550 tok/s peak via OpenVINO. The r/LocalLLaMA community is enthusiastic but notes Intel's software stack still trails NVIDIA's CUDA ecosystem significantly.