Can Mac mini M4 Pro 48 GB run Muse Glimmer (30B)?
48 GB unified · 273 GB/s memory bandwidth · Muse Glimmer (30B) has 29.6B parameters.
Short answer
Yes, comfortable for chat; borderline for coding in a repository.
Best quantization for chat: Q4_K_M (16 GB of weights) on LM Studio. Generation: 10–14 tok/s, leaving about 22 GB free for your other apps.
How it rates for each workload
Same model and machine, different jobs. Agents and long documents send far bigger prompts than chat, so they need much more speed and memory.
| Workload | Verdict | Quant | Generation | First reply | Context | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chatwith Open WebUI | Comfortable | Q4_K_M | 10–14 tok/s | ≈7 s | 8K | Details |
| Coding questionswith Continue | Acceptable | Q4_K_M | 10–14 tok/s | ≈45 s | 16K | Details |
| Coding in a repositorywith Aider | Borderline | Q4_K_M | 10–14 tok/s | ≈2 min | 32K | Details |
| Agentic codingwith OpenCode | Borderline | Q4_K_M | 10–13 tok/s | ≈3 min | 32K | Details |
| Long documents (64K)with Open WebUI | Borderline | Q4_K_M | 10–13 tok/s | ≈10 min | 64K | Details |
Speeds are estimates calibrated against measured benchmarks on similar hardware. “First reply” is the time to read the workload’s opening prompt. How we calculate
Other models for Mac mini M4 Pro 48 GB
The best-rated models for chat on this machine.
- Qwen3.6 35B-A3B60–80 tok/sExcellent
- Gemma 4 26B-A4B40–55 tok/sExcellent
- Qwen3.5 35B-A3B60–80 tok/sExcellent
- LFM2.5 24B-A2B100–140 tok/sExcellent
- gpt-oss-20b60–80 tok/sExcellent
- GLM-4.7-Flash (30B-A3B)50–65 tok/sExcellent
Cheapest machines for Muse Glimmer (30B)
Hardware rated comfortable or better for chat, lowest price first.
- Desktop PC · Intel Arc Pro B60 24GB · 32 GB RAM$1,500 · 10–17 tok/sComfortable
- Desktop PC · Radeon RX 7900 XT · 32 GB RAM$1,550 · 25–40 tok/sExcellent
- Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PC / Framework Desktop · 64 GB$1,600 · 12–16 tok/sComfortable
- Desktop PC · Intel Arc Pro B60 24GB · 64 GB RAM$1,628 · 10–17 tok/sComfortable
- Desktop PC · GeForce RTX 3090 · 32 GB RAM$1,700 · 30–40 tok/sExcellent
- Desktop PC · Radeon RX 7900 XTX · 32 GB RAM$1,800 · 35–50 tok/sExcellent
Different tool, context size or workload?
These pages use typical settings. The full check models your exact setup.