Can Surface Laptop Ultra · RTX Spark N1X (18-core) · 24 GB run Muse Glimmer (30B)?
24 GB unified · 300 GB/s memory bandwidth · Muse Glimmer (30B) has 29.6B parameters.
Short answer
No. It doesn't fit in memory.
Needs ≈17 GB but only ≈16 GB is available after the OS, other apps and Open WebUI.
Why it doesn’t fit
Even its smallest practical version (Q4_K_M) needs about 17 GB for the model, its context memory and the runtime. After Windows (≈4.5 GB), a browser with a few tabs (≈3.0 GB) and Open WebUI (≈1.0 GB), Surface Laptop Ultra · RTX Spark N1X (18-core) · 24 GB has about 16 GB left, so it’s 1.6 GB short.
Ways to make it work
Close everything else
With no other apps open, Muse Glimmer (30B) runs at Q4_K_M: Acceptable at 9–15 tok/s. Expect the system to feel tight while it’s loaded.
Pick a smaller model from the same family
No smaller Muse Glimmer model in our catalog runs well here. See the other models below.
Get more memory
The same machine with 128 GB handles it: Acceptable.
Check your exact setup
These pages assume typical settings. A shorter context or a lighter chat app can change the answer.
Check Surface Laptop Ultra · RTX Spark N1X (18-core) · 24 GB
The same applies to every workload we rate (chat, coding questions, coding in a repository, agentic coding and long documents): they all need at least as much memory as chat.
Other models for Surface Laptop Ultra · RTX Spark N1X (18-core) · 24 GB
The best-rated models for chat on this machine.
- gpt-oss-20b50–85 tok/sExcellent
- MiniCPM5 2B55–90 tok/sExcellent
- Gemma 4 26B-A4B60–95 tok/sExcellent
- Qwen3.5 4B35–55 tok/sExcellent
- Qwen3.5 9B18–30 tok/sExcellent
- Gemma 4 12B20–35 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
- Mac mini M4 Pro 48 GB$1,799 · 10–14 tok/sComfortable
Same chip, other memory: 128 GB
Different tool, context size or workload?
These pages use typical settings. The full check models your exact setup.