# The llama.cpp and vLLM projects move INSANELY fast. do we have a good grasp on how good tensor-parallel inference on Intel Arc is at the end of Aug 2026?

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> Published: 2026-08-29 22:12:21+00:00

this is the most recent stuff I can find: [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1ufctc8/tensor_split_fix_for_intel_gpus_llamacpp_release/)

everything more recent I find just ends up linking back to that post. which like, sure, I get it, that was where folks pointed out the PR for TP SYCL that got merged into llama.cpp. I just want to know if folks around here are running it and whether or not you’ve seen improvements in performance over the past two months, especially on everyone’s favorite, Qwen3.6/8-27B. I am slowly leaning in the direction of selling my two 16GB 5060Tis and purchasing a couple of Arc Pro B65s (if I can find them) in order to have the VRAM to run that model specifically at a reasonable quant without quantizing kv.