How fast will Muse Glimmer 30B feel on the NVIDIA RTX 5090 32GB?

Muse Glimmer 30B on the NVIDIA RTX 5090 32GB

Muse Glimmer 30B is a 29.78B-parameter model. At Q4_K_M it needs about 20.5 GB of memory. The NVIDIA RTX 5090 32GB has 30 GB usable, so it fits entirely in memory. Expect about 28 tokens/sec (24–32), with the first token after 0.3 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 GBFits28 tok/s0.3 sProjected
Q8_029.6 GBPartial offload20 tok/s1.2 sProjected
FP1655.7 GBPartial offload2.1 tok/s1.2 sProjected

Muse Glimmer 30B on other hardware

Other models on the NVIDIA RTX 5090 32GB

All models on the NVIDIA RTX 5090 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.