Can the GeForce RTX 4090 run Meta Muse Glimmer 30B?
Yes. A used GeForce RTX 4090 ($2,910) runs Meta Muse Glimmer 30B at Q4 with room for its full 128K context, at about 46 tok/s estimate. That is $63 per tok/s, #3 of 5 priced GPUs that fit it; the Radeon RX 7900 XTX ranks first at $34.
Yes, with room for long context. On the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (24 GB) there is room for about its full 128K tokens of context with the default FP16 KV cacheestimate: what is left after the weights and a 1 GB runtime reserve. The Q4_K_M GGUF of Meta Muse Glimmer 30B is 18.39 GB (source); with our 1.5 GB allowance for the runtime and a short context it needs about 19.9 GB.
Meta Muse Glimmer 30B fits 5 of the 18 GPUs we have a dated price for; the smallest of them has 24 GB. The GeForce RTX 4090's 1008 GB/s gives ~46 tok/s estimate, 59% of the fastest card, the GeForce RTX 5090 at ~78 tok/s. On the same card, the mixture-of-experts K2-Horizon-MoVA-36B-A4B (4B of 37.44B active, 22.37 GB) estimates ~228 tok/s.
At $2,910 (used) it works out to $63 per tok/s, #3 of 5. The Radeon RX 7900 XTX is the cheapest per tok/s at $34 ($1,350, new). The cheapest complete build we priced that runs Meta Muse Glimmer 30B is our 24 GB: one used RTX 3090 build at $2,650.58.
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Speed is a bandwidth-based estimate (1008 GB/s, NVIDIA), scaled by per-platform constants calibrated to 45 measured llama.cpp benchmarks (2025–26), not a benchmark of this pair. Max context is an estimate from the model's architecture for llama.cpp with flash attention.
Next size up: NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B (25.48 GB at Q4_K_M) needs ~27 GB and does not fit on one NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090. See what runs NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B.
Every priced GPU that runs Meta Muse Glimmer 30B, by cost per token/sec
| GPU | VRAM | Speed estimate | Max context estimate | Low price | $ per tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | 24 GB | ~40 tok/s | 128K (full) | $1,350 (new) | $34 |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | 24 GB | ~43 tok/s | 128K (full) | $1,499 (used) | $35 |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 | 24 GB | ~46 tok/s | 128K (full) | $2,910 (used) | $63 |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 | 32 GB | ~78 tok/s | 128K (full) | $6,500 (new) | $83 |
| NVIDIA RTX A6000 | 48 GB | ~35 tok/s | 128K (full) | $8,363 (new) | $239 |
Prices: gpusold.com, 2026-11-02; see how prices are sourced. Prices move daily. Bar length shows value: longer is cheaper per tok/s.