How fast will Muse Glimmer 30B feel on the CPU-only (Ryzen 9 9950X, 96GB DDR5)?

Muse Glimmer 30B on the CPU-only (Ryzen 9 9950X, 96GB DDR5)

Muse Glimmer 30B is a 29.78B-parameter model. At Q4_K_M it needs about 20.5 GB of memory. The CPU-only (Ryzen 9 9950X, 96GB DDR5) has 89 GB usable, so it fits entirely in memory. Expect about 3.0 tokens/sec (2.5–3.4), with the first token after 1.0 s for a short prompt. This estimate is projected from the hardware specs; no benchmarks exist yet.

Speed by quantization

QuantizationFile sizeMemoryGenerationFirst tokenSource
Q4_K_M19.8 GBFits3.0 tok/s1.0 sProjected
Q8_029.6 GBFits2.0 tok/s1.0 sProjected
FP1655.7 GBFits1.1 tok/s1.0 sProjected

Muse Glimmer 30B on other hardware

Other models on the CPU-only (Ryzen 9 9950X, 96GB DDR5)

All models on the CPU-only (Ryzen 9 9950X, 96GB DDR5) · 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.