How fast will Muse Glimmer 30B feel on the Intel Arc Pro B70 32GB?

Muse Glimmer 30B on the Intel Arc Pro B70 32GB

Muse Glimmer 30B is a 29.78B-parameter model. At Q4_K_M it needs about 20.5 GB of memory. The Intel Arc Pro B70 32GB has 30 GB usable, so it fits entirely in memory. Expect about 5.9 tokens/sec (5.0–6.8), with the first token after 0.7 s for a short prompt. This estimate is projected from the hardware specs; no benchmarks exist yet.

Speed by quantization

Quantization	File size	Memory	Generation	First token	Source
Q4_K_M	19.8 GB	Fits	5.9 tok/s	0.7 s	Projected
Q8_0	29.6 GB	Partial offload	4.9 tok/s	2.0 s	Projected
FP16	55.7 GB	Partial offload	1.6 tok/s	2.0 s	Projected

Muse Glimmer 30B on other hardware

H200 141GB (cloud) · 75 tok/s at Q4_K_M
H100 80GB (cloud) · 53 tok/s at Q4_K_M
A100 80GB (cloud) · 32 tok/s at Q4_K_M
Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB · 29 tok/s at Q4_K_M
NVIDIA RTX 5090 32GB · 28 tok/s at Q4_K_M
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 96GB · 28 tok/s at Q4_K_M
AMD RX 7900 XTX 24GB · 28 tok/s at Q4_K_M
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 512GB · 20 tok/s at Q4_K_M
AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB · 19 tok/s at Q4_K_M
AMD RX 7900 XT 20GB · 16 tok/s at Q4_K_M
NVIDIA RTX 4090 24GB · 16 tok/s at Q4_K_M
NVIDIA RTX 3090 24GB · 15 tok/s at Q4_K_M
MacBook Pro M5 Max 128GB · 15 tok/s at Q4_K_M
Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB · 13 tok/s at Q4_K_M
MacBook M3 Max 48GB · 9.5 tok/s at Q4_K_M
AMD RX 9070 XT 16GB · 8.4 tok/s at Q4_K_M
NVIDIA RTX 5080 16GB · 7.9 tok/s at Q4_K_M
NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti 16GB · 7.7 tok/s at Q4_K_M
AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB (Strix Halo) · 7.4 tok/s at Q4_K_M
MacBook Pro M5 Pro 48GB · 7.3 tok/s at Q4_K_M
NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB · 7.0 tok/s at Q4_K_M
Mac Mini M4 Pro 64GB · 6.5 tok/s at Q4_K_M
NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16GB · 5.9 tok/s at Q4_K_M
NVIDIA RTX 4070 12GB · 5.0 tok/s at Q4_K_M
NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB · 4.5 tok/s at Q4_K_M
NVIDIA DGX Spark 128GB · 4.3 tok/s at Q4_K_M
CPU-only (Ryzen 9 9950X, 96GB DDR5) · 3.0 tok/s at Q4_K_M
MacBook M4 Pro 24GB · won't run
MacBook M2 Pro 16GB · won't run

Other models on the Intel Arc Pro B70 32GB

Qwen 3.6/3.8 27B · 7.5 tok/s at Q4_K_M
GLM-5.3 Flash · won't run
GPT-OSS 20B · 76 tok/s at MXFP4
Gemma 4 26B A4B · 51 tok/s at Q4_K_M
Qwen 3.5/3.6 35B A3B · 66 tok/s at Q4_K_M
Ornith 1.5 35B A3B · 65 tok/s at Q4_K_M
DeepSeek V4 Flash · won't run
GPT-OSS 120B · 31 tok/s at MXFP4
Gemma 4 31B · 6.9 tok/s at Q4_K_M
Llama 3.1 8B · 26 tok/s at Q4_K_M
Qwen 3.5 9B · 21 tok/s at Q4_K_M
DeepSeek R1 Distill 14B · 14 tok/s at Q4_K_M
Ornith 1.5 9B · 20 tok/s at Q4_K_M
Qwen3 30B A3B · 58 tok/s at Q4_K_M

All models on the Intel Arc Pro B70 32GB · Muse Glimmer 30B on all hardware

Estimates for a short prompt on a single device. Measured numbers come from community benchmarks (r/LocalLLaMA, localscore.ai and more); others are derived from similar setups or projected from specs. Open source on GitHub.