Intel Arc Pro B70 Showing Off Some Performance Wins With Linux 7.1

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 10 June 2026 at 10:46 AM EDT. Page 4 of 5. 2 Comments.
Llama.cpp benchmark with settings of Backend: Vulkan, Model: Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-8B-Q8_0, Test: Text Generation 128. v7.1-rc6 was the fastest.
Llama.cpp benchmark with settings of Backend: Vulkan, Model: Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-8B-Q8_0, Test: Prompt Processing 2048. v7.1-rc6 was the fastest.
Llama.cpp benchmark with settings of Backend: Vulkan, Model: granite-3.0-3b-a800m-instruct-Q8_0, Test: Text Generation 128. v7.1-rc6 was the fastest.
Llama.cpp benchmark with settings of Backend: Vulkan, Model: granite-3.0-3b-a800m-instruct-Q8_0, Test: Prompt Processing 2048. v7.1-rc6 was the fastest.
Llama.cpp benchmark with settings of Backend: Vulkan, Model: gpt-oss-20b-Q8_0, Test: Prompt Processing 2048. v7.1-rc6 was the fastest.
Llama.cpp benchmark with settings of Backend: Vulkan, Model: DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-Q8_0, Test: Prompt Processing 2048. v7.1-rc6 was the fastest.
Llama.cpp benchmark with settings of Backend: Vulkan, Model: GLM-4.7-Flash-IQ4_XS, Test: Prompt Processing 2048. v7.1-rc6 was the fastest.
Llama.cpp benchmark with settings of Backend: Vulkan, Model: Qwen3.5-9B-Q8_0, Test: Text Generation 128. v7.1-rc6 was the fastest.

With Llama.cpp and using the Vulkan back-end, there was minimal difference between these two latest kernel versions tested.

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