RunsLocalGPU checkerLocal AI toolsv1.8 · data Oct 14, 2026

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What GPU do I need to run GLM-5.3-Flash?

GLM-5.3-Flash has 320B parameters (18B active per token, mixture-of-experts). At Q4_K_M with 8K context it needs about 196.0 GB of memory. It needs a large unified-memory machine such as the M3 Ultra 512GB, or a multi-GPU setup.

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Memory by quantization (8K context)

QuantBits per weightMemory needed
Q8_08.5342.0 GB
Q6_K6.56264.4 GB
Q5_K_M5.69229.6 GB
Q4_K_M4.85196.0 GB
Q3_K_M3.91158.4 GB
IQ2_M2.7110.0 GB

Hardware that runs it fully in fast memory

HardwareMemoryBest quantEst. speed
M3 Ultra 512GB512 GBQ8_026 tok/s

Assumes 32 GB of DDR5 system RAM for offload. Estimates only; real speeds usually land within about 20%.