# Intel 258v - What's the point?(AI)

> Source: <https://forum.level1techs.com/t/intel-258v-whats-the-point-ai/254478#post_1>
> Published: 2026-08-26 22:26:21+00:00

I recently lucked into a Samsung Galaxy Book 5 360 Pro(talk about a mouthful) with an Intel 258v 32GB model. I wanted to see how capable it was running local AI models and I’ve been kinda disappointed. Is there something I’m missing?

Ubuntu Server 26.04 - Kernel 7.2

OpenVINO - So incredibly immature, I can run Qwen 3.6 35B A3B if I pull the latest nightlies and build everything myself but it just sucks in comparison to llama.cpp performance wise.

llama.cpp - I tried Sycl and Vulkan, Vulkan was the clear winner with double the tokens per second output.

I thought this generation was supposed to be more capable of running local models? Obviously there’s limitations with RAM amounts but parsing an A3B model and only getting roughly 30 t/s decode and 200 t/s prefill(honestly this is the more painful part) really sucks.