Muse Glimmer 30B runs at 24 tok/s on a 48 GB M4 Max, a published figure reported by huggingface.co (MLX, Q4_K_M). It needs about 18 GB of unified memory. It is Meta's 30B dense model, released under the Apache 2.0 licence.
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| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Tokens per second | sourced24 tok/s |
| Provenance | published figure · huggingface.co |
| Quantization | Q4_K_M |
| Engine | MLX |
| Time to first token | 0.5s |
| Figure dated | 2026-08 |
| Minimum RAM | 18 GB |
| Parameters | 30B |
| Chip bandwidth | 546 GB/s |
Each row as the index holds it, with its source. “Mac RAM” is the memory of the Mac a run used, not the model’s requirement (18 GB). The headline figure follows the reference rule: the lower-median measured plain-decode run at 5 bits or fewer (a run whose quant was not stated counts only when no stated-quant run qualifies), else the estimate; a run marked “not used to anchor estimates” is listed here but never becomes the headline.
| Speed | Quant | Engine | Mac RAM | Context | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sourced24 tok/s | Q4_K_M | MLX | 48 GB | — | huggingface.co | — |
Ollama — the index has not verified an Ollama tag for Muse Glimmer 30B, so it doesn’t print one (a guessed tag fails with “pull model manifest: file does not exist”). Search the Ollama library →
MLX — pick a build from Hugging Face’s MLX listings, then run it with its repo id:
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The 24 tok/s figure above came from MLX at Q4_K_M; other runtimes and quants run at different speeds.
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Meta's 30B model, ~27 tok/s on M5 Max. Apache 2.0 license, LLMCheck capability 42/50.
Apache 2.0 licence · 30B · 131K context · LLMCheck capability 42/50 · see its leaderboard rank →
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