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Muse Glimmer 30B vs qwen: my day-one local benchmark on a dual RTX 4090 rig

Meta dropped Muse Glimmer 30B and I spent the day trying to unseat my qwen daily driver on the dual-4090 rig. Four apparent hangs, one day-one bug, and a same-harness bench later, I had my answer - and it wasn't the coronation I'd half expected. So, is it better than my daily driver?

gpu · hardware
Best GPU for Local LLMs in 2026: What I'd Buy and Why

In today's post I'm going through the best GPU for running LLMs locally, and why memory bandwidth and VRAM decide it. I start with the cheapest VRAM you can buy and the cheapest 32GB cards, then the modded 48GB RTX 4090s I run, and finish on when an RTX PRO 6000 or a DGX Spark makes more sense.

local-llm · gpu
How to set up LM Studio: GPU offload, developer mode and your first local model

Turn a gaming GPU into a working local AI model with LM Studio - free, no billing, no API key. In today's guide, we install it, point it at the GPU, download a first model, and then go through the settings: GPU offload, context length, Flash Attention, temperature and top-k, and the Developer mode that unlocks them.

claude-code · local-llm