Meta's new AI model runs at home now — one $1,299 AMD card almost keeps up with a $4,700 Nvidia one

AMD's own numbers put its workstation GPU at 53 tokens a second on Meta's new 30B model. Nvidia's flagship does more — for over three times the price. Aliteq Ravi Malhotra · Hardware Editor

If you already own a 24GB-plus GPU from either camp, Muse Glimmer is worth downloading today — it's free, it's genuinely capable, and it doesn't need a subscription. If you're buying hardware…

If you've got a 16GB or 24GB card, grab the K-Quant-17GB build, not the full-precision release — Meta and AMD both ship the smaller quant specifically so 24GB cards aren't locked out. Downloading…

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At full precision, Muse Glimmer wants 64GB of VRAM — out of reach for almost anyone outside a workstation. Quantized down with AMD and Meta's K-Quant-Dynamic format, that drops to roughly 32GB with…

What Muse Glimmer actually needs

The Radeon AI PRO R9700 is a 32GB GDDR6 workstation card built on the same Navi 48 RDNA4 die as the gaming RX 9070 XT, just with double the memory and a 300W power target. At $1,299 MSRP, it's the…

Do the rough math and the R9700 is the better deal right up until you turn Nvidia's acceleration on. At stock speeds, you're paying roughly $17 per token/second on the AMD card versus around $61 per…

Where the $1,299 card actually wins

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