How fast will Muse Glimmer 30B feel on the AMD RX 7900 XT 20GB?

Muse Glimmer 30B on the AMD RX 7900 XT 20GB

Muse Glimmer 30B is a 29.78B-parameter model. At Q4_K_M it needs about 20.5 GB of memory. The AMD RX 7900 XT 20GB has 19 GB usable, so it only fits with part of the model offloaded to system RAM, which slows it down. Expect about 16 tokens/sec (6.2–27), with the first token after 1.6 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 GBPartial offload16 tok/s1.6 sProjected
Q8_029.6 GBPartial offload4.6 tok/s1.6 sProjected
FP1655.7 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——

Muse Glimmer 30B on other hardware

Other models on the AMD RX 7900 XT 20GB

All models on the AMD RX 7900 XT 20GB · 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.