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Can Mac Studio M2 Max 96 GB run Muse Glimmer (30B)?

96 GB unified · 400 GB/s memory bandwidth · Muse Glimmer (30B) has 29.6B parameters.

Short answer

Yes, comfortable for chat; borderline for agentic coding.

Best quantization for chat: Q4_K_M (16 GB of weights) on LM Studio. Generation: 14–19 tok/s, leaving about 69 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.

WorkloadVerdictQuantGenerationFirst replyContext
Chatwith Open WebUIComfortableQ4_K_M14–19 tok/s≈5 s8KDetails
Coding questionswith ContinueComfortableQ4_K_M14–19 tok/s≈30 s16KDetails
Coding in a repositorywith AiderAcceptableQ4_K_M14–19 tok/s≈2 min32KDetails
Agentic codingwith OpenCodeBorderlineQ4_K_M14–19 tok/s≈2 min32KDetails
Long documents (64K)with Open WebUIAcceptableQ4_K_M14–19 tok/s≈6 min64KDetails

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

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