Can MacBook Pro M3 Max 48 GB run Muse Glimmer (30B)?

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

Short answer

Yes, comfortable for chat and acceptable or better for every workload we test.

Best quantization for chat: Q4_K_M (16 GB of weights) on LM Studio. Generation: 14–20 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	14–20 tok/s	≈4 s	8K	Details
Coding questionswith Continue	Comfortable	Q4_K_M	14–19 tok/s	≈25 s	16K	Details
Coding in a repositorywith Aider	Acceptable	Q4_K_M	14–19 tok/s	≈85 s	32K	Details
Agentic codingwith OpenCode	Acceptable	Q4_K_M	14–19 tok/s	≈2 min	32K	Details
Long documents (64K)with Open WebUI	Acceptable	Q4_K_M	14–19 tok/s	≈6 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

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