Yes, just — 0.9 GB spare

Muse Glimmer 30B at Q4_K_M fits your Radeon RX 7900 XT entirely on the GPU at 8K context, at an estimated 29 tokens per second. Past 76K the KV cache pushes it over — quantise the cache to q8_0, or step down a quantisation, to go longer.

Fully on GPU 8K context Q4_K_M · 16.8 GB Apache 2.0 Released 10 Aug 2026 New this month Vision

Meta's first open weights since Llama 4: a dense 30B distilled from Muse Spark for always-on local agents. Two KV heads keep the cache small.

What hardware do I need for Muse Glimmer 30B? →

The VRAM budget

weights 16.8 GB
Weights 16.8 GB KV cache @ 8K 0.18 GB Runtime overhead 0.6 GB Free 0.9 GB of 18.4 GB

Quantisation ladder

QuantWeightsTotal @ 8KMax contextTok/sQualityFit
Q8_0 29.5 GB 30.3 GB ~2.8 −0.1% ppl 11.9 GB over
Q6_K 22.8 GB 23.5 GB ~5.6 −0.4% ppl 5.1 GB over
Q5_K_M 19.7 GB 20.4 GB ~11 −0.8% ppl 2.0 GB over
Q4_K_M 16.8 GB 17.5 GB 76K 29 −1.9% ppl Recommended
Q3_K_M 13.6 GB 14.3 GB 128K 36 −5.4% ppl Long context
Q2_K 11.6 GB 12.4 GB 128K 42 −15% ppl Long context

Quality is the published perplexity delta against f16 weights. Max context assumes an f16 KV cache; q8_0 roughly doubles it. This model interleaves sliding-window layers (2048 tokens, 13 of 52 layers global), which is why its cache barely grows with context.

How to run it

terminal
$ llama-server \
    -hf meta-models/Muse-Glimmer-30B:Q4_K_M \
    -c 8192 -ngl 99

The engine underneath most of the others. Every knob is exposed. More on llama.cpp.

01Download is 16.8 GB. Keep it on an SSD — a first load off a spinning disk takes minutes.
02Close anything else holding VRAM. A browser with hardware acceleration can sit on 1–2 GB.
03Only 0.9 GB is spare, so a long system prompt can still push it over. Its real ceiling here is 76K context.
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