How fast will Muse Glimmer 30B feel on the MacBook Pro M5 Pro 48GB?

Muse Glimmer 30B on the MacBook Pro M5 Pro 48GB

Muse Glimmer 30B is a 29.78B-parameter model. At Q4_K_M it needs about 20.5 GB of memory. The MacBook Pro M5 Pro 48GB has 36 GB usable, so it fits entirely in memory. Expect about 7.3 tokens/sec (6.2–8.4), with the first token after 0.6 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 GBFits7.3 tok/s0.6 sProjected
Q8_029.6 GBFits4.9 tok/s0.6 sProjected
FP1655.7 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——

Muse Glimmer 30B on other hardware

Other models on the MacBook Pro M5 Pro 48GB

All models on the MacBook Pro M5 Pro 48GB · 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.