How fast will Muse Glimmer 30B feel on the Mac Studio M3 Ultra 512GB?

Muse Glimmer 30B on the Mac Studio M3 Ultra 512GB

Muse Glimmer 30B is a 29.78B-parameter model. At Q4_K_M it needs about 20.5 GB of memory. The Mac Studio M3 Ultra 512GB has 384 GB usable, so it fits entirely in memory. Expect about 20 tokens/sec (17–22), with the first token after 0.5 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 GBFits20 tok/s0.5 sProjected
Q8_029.6 GBFits13 tok/s0.5 sProjected
FP1655.7 GBFits6.9 tok/s0.5 sProjected

Muse Glimmer 30B on other hardware

Other models on the Mac Studio M3 Ultra 512GB

All models on the Mac Studio M3 Ultra 512GB · 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.