MODEL ARCHITECTURE SPEC โ€ข META AI816B MoE

Meta Muse Spark Open (816B-A42B MoE) VRAM & inference speed

816B Total Params42B Active (MoE)80 Layers โ€ข 8 KV Heads64K Default Ctx (Max 977K)Ollama: muse-spark:816b

Accurate memory requirements, KV cache footprint, and tokens/sec generation benchmarks for running Meta Muse Spark Open (816B-A42B MoE) across local GPUs, Apple Silicon Macs, and cloud instances.

โŒ Out of Memory (OOM) โ€” Exceeds Hardware VRAM512.86 GB (641%)0 t/s

Model & Target Hardware

interactive
Frontier Multi-Step Agentic Reasoning & Native Multimodal
Meta Muse Spark Open (816B-A42B MoE) on NVIDIA H100 SXM (80GB HBM3 Cloud GPU)

โœ• Out of Memory โ€” Exceeds VRAM Capacity

โœ• OOM
Required VRAM
512.86 GB
641% of hardware capacity (80 GB)
Est. Decode Speed
0 tok/s
42B active params @ 3350 GB/s
Available Headroom
-432.86 GB
Needs +432.86 GB more VRAM
Memory Allocation & Headroom
512.86 GB allocated of 80 GB capacity
641% utilized
Weights: 489.6 GB
KV: (32K): 5.37 GB
Overhead: 17.89 GB
Deficit: -432.86 GB
โšก Architecture & Throughput Transparency: Single-user decode speed (~0 tok/s) is memory-bandwidth bound at batch size = 1 on NVIDIA H100 SXM (80GB HBM3 Cloud GPU) (3350 GB/s). Prompt prefill / TTFT (~0 tok/s) is compute-bound and utilizes GPU Tensor cores. Actual latency varies with FlashAttention-2 and runtime engine (Ollama/vLLM/llama.cpp).
OLLAMA_FLASH_ATTENTION=1 OLLAMA_KV_CACHE_TYPE=q8_0 ollama run muse-spark:816b

Quantization Precision Matrix

32K ctx โ€ข KV: Q8_0
QuantizationWeightsKV CacheTotal VRAMEst. SpeedFit Status
FP1616 bpw1632 GB5.37 GB1695.24 GB (2119%)0 t/sOOM
Q8_08.5 bpw864.96 GB5.37 GB901.35 GB (1127%)0 t/sOOM
Q6_K6.56 bpw669.12 GB5.37 GB698.66 GB (873%)0 t/sOOM
Q5_K_M5.68 bpw579.36 GB5.37 GB605.76 GB (757%)0 t/sOOM
Q4_K_M4.8 bpw489.6 GB5.37 GB512.86 GB (641%)0 t/sOOM
FP44.25 bpw432.48 GB5.37 GB453.74 GB (567%)0 t/sOOM
IQ3_XS3.3 bpw334.56 GB5.37 GB352.39 GB (440%)0 t/sOOM

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Hardware Compatibility Matrix for Meta Muse Spark Open (816B-A42B MoE)

Standard Q4_K_M precision with 32K context window and Q8_0 KV cache

12 Systems Benchmarked
Hardware SystemVRAM EnvelopeRequired VRAMHeadroomEst. Decode SpeedCompatibilityTest Fit
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 (32GB GDDR7)
Consumer GPU โ€ข 1792 GB/s
32 GB512.86 GB-480.86 GB0 (OOM)โœ• OOMTest Fit โ†’
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB GDDR6X)
Consumer GPU โ€ข 1008 GB/s
24 GB512.86 GB-488.86 GB0 (OOM)โœ• OOMTest Fit โ†’
2x NVIDIA RTX 3090 Dual Rig (48GB Total VRAM)
Multi-GPU Rig โ€ข 936 GB/s
48 GB512.86 GB-464.86 GB0 (OOM)โœ• OOMTest Fit โ†’
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 (16GB GDDR7)
Consumer GPU โ€ข 960 GB/s
16 GB512.86 GB-496.86 GB0 (OOM)โœ• OOMTest Fit โ†’
NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super (16GB)
Consumer GPU โ€ข 672 GB/s
16 GB512.86 GB-496.86 GB0 (OOM)โœ• OOMTest Fit โ†’
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12GB)
Consumer GPU โ€ข 360 GB/s
12 GB512.86 GB-500.86 GB0 (OOM)โœ• OOMTest Fit โ†’
Apple Mac Mini M4 Pro (64GB Unified Memory)
Apple Silicon โ€ข 273 GB/s
54 GB512.86 GB-458.86 GB0 (OOM)โœ• OOMTest Fit โ†’
Apple Mac Studio M4 Max (128GB Unified Memory)
Apple Silicon โ€ข 546 GB/s
112 GB512.86 GB-400.86 GB0 (OOM)โœ• OOMTest Fit โ†’
Apple Mac Studio M5 Ultra (256GB Unified Memory)
Apple Silicon โ€ข 890 GB/s
236 GB512.86 GB-276.86 GB0 (OOM)โœ• OOMTest Fit โ†’
AMD Strix Halo Mini-PC (Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB)
Unified APU / Mini-PC โ€ข 256 GB/s
110 GB512.86 GB-402.86 GB0 (OOM)โœ• OOMTest Fit โ†’
NVIDIA DGX Spark (128GB Grace-Blackwell Unified)
AI Appliance โ€ข 273 GB/s
118 GB512.86 GB-394.86 GB0 (OOM)โœ• OOMTest Fit โ†’
NVIDIA H100 SXM (80GB HBM3 Cloud GPU)
Datacenter Cloud GPU โ€ข 3350 GB/s
80 GB512.86 GB-432.86 GB0 (OOM)โœ• OOMTest Fit โ†’