Models · 320B / 18B MoE — cited, not measured

GLM 5.3 Flash

Z.ai’s 320B / 18B active multimodal MoE. Official card and config.json list 1,048,576 tokens. Q6 / Q5 / Q4 folder sizes come from unsloth/GLM-5.3-Flash-GGUF. Q3 is a labeled estimate. Consumer cards offload. Decode is not yet measured on our R9700s. llama.cpp first.

How we test — Measured cells cite official amdai-bench/run@1 cards. Estimates stay labeled. Q3 is estimate-only. Q1/Q2 stay off.

Official model card

Parameters
320B total
Active 18B active
Context
1,048,576 tokens
From the official card
License
On the official Hugging Face card
AMDai does not reprint a license string that is not already cited on this site. Read the license on the model’s own card.
Recommended
UD-Q4_K_XL
256K · llama.cpp first

Official card: 320B total / 18B active. 11 of 45 layers are sparse attention (MLA, kv_lora_rank 512, K-only cache) and grow the context store plus an 11×384 indexer (raw + 2 pooled rows). 34 linear (KDA) layers hold a fixed state. max_position_embeddings 1,048,576. 288 routed experts + 1 shared, 8 per token. Consumer cards offload; both RAM lines are estimates until measured.

Official card: zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash · GGUF: unsloth/GLM-5.3-Flash-GGUF. Abliterated derivatives are educational only — read /abliterated, never the default on this page.

GGUF file sizes

Q6, Q5, and Q4 sizes are cited from the GGUF repo listing. Q3 is a labeled estimate. GB here is the publisher’s decimal listing, not measured VRAM. Q1 and Q2 stay off.

GLM 5.3 Flash cited GGUF file sizes. Q3 is a labeled estimate.
Quant File size Kind Cite
UD-Q6_K_XL 291.83 GB Cited listing unsloth/GLM-5.3-Flash-GGUF Hugging Face LFS shard sum for unsloth/GLM-5.3-Flash-GGUF UD-Q6_K_XL (291.83 GB across 7 shards)
UD-Q5_K_XL 240.31 GB Cited listing unsloth/GLM-5.3-Flash-GGUF Hugging Face LFS shard sum for unsloth/GLM-5.3-Flash-GGUF UD-Q5_K_XL (240.31 GB across 6 shards)
UD-Q4_K_XL 199.71 GB Cited listing unsloth/GLM-5.3-Flash-GGUF Hugging Face LFS shard sum for unsloth/GLM-5.3-Flash-GGUF UD-Q4_K_XL (199.71 GB across 6 shards)
UD-Q3_K_XL estimate 147.54 GB Estimate unsloth/GLM-5.3-Flash-GGUF Hugging Face LFS shard sum for unsloth/GLM-5.3-Flash-GGUF UD-Q3_K_XL (147.54 GB across 4 shards). Q3 is a labeled estimate — not a local desktop run

System RAM

Kit sizes are real DIMM steps. Measured peaks come from run cards when we have them; otherwise the line is an estimate. Wherever RAM offload appears, both shopper labels stay on the page.

Minimum system RAM needed

192 GB kit

Estimate · 186.2 GiB raw · 256K context

RAM needed at full context

192 GB kit

Estimate · 181.5 GiB raw · 8K full context

Estimate. Offloaded weights + KV in RAM + runtime + OS/desktop + headroom, rounded up to a 192 GB DIMM kit. The local desktop ships 256 GB DDR5; measured host-RAM usage is not recorded until Local AI numbers arrive.

Breakdown
Offloaded weights ·
154.0 GiB
Separable embed in RAM ·
0 GiB
KV in RAM at selected ·
4.95 GiB
KV in RAM at full context ·
0.29 GiB
Runtime / backend ·
3.26 GiB
OS / desktop baseline ·
8.00 GiB
Headroom ·
16.0 GiB

Q3 estimate · GLM 5.3 Flash

Minimum system RAM needed

192 GB kit

Estimate · 132.2 GiB raw · 8K context

RAM needed at full context

192 GB kit

Estimate · 132.2 GiB raw · 8K full context

Estimate. Offloaded weights + KV in RAM + runtime + OS/desktop + headroom, rounded up to a 192 GB DIMM kit. The local desktop ships 256 GB DDR5; measured host-RAM usage is not recorded until Local AI numbers arrive.

Breakdown
Offloaded weights ·
105.4 GiB
Separable embed in RAM ·
0 GiB
KV in RAM at selected ·
0.29 GiB
KV in RAM at full context ·
0.29 GiB
Runtime / backend ·
2.47 GiB
OS / desktop baseline ·
8.00 GiB
Headroom ·
16.0 GiB

Speeds

not yet measured on our R9700s. Contribute an amdai-bench/run@1 card, or open Stack Lab doctor. Do not treat calculator GB as tok/s.

not yet measured on our R9700s. Record a card with amdai-bench or open Stack Lab doctor. Other backends on the official card stay secondary.

Configuration table

Q6 / Q5 / Q4, plus Q3 as a labeled estimate. 1 GPU and 2 GPU. Decode, prefill, peak VRAM per card, VRAM total, and peak system RAM come from amdai-bench/run@1 cards when a cell is measured. A null field stays not on the card. Untested cells say no data — contribute or not yet measured on our R9700s. Q1 and Q2 stay off.

GLM 5.3 Flash configurations. Measured cells cite run cards. Q3 is a labeled estimate unless a card exists.
Quant GPUs Context Decode Prefill VRAM / card VRAM total System RAM Source
UD-Q6_K_XL 1 · single 8K not yet measured on our R9700s not yet measured on our R9700s 276.6 GB (estimate) 276.6 GB (estimate) 384 GB kit (estimate) Calculator Hugging Face LFS shard sum for unsloth/GLM-5.3-Flash-GGUF UD-Q6_K_XL (291.83 GB across 7 shards). Speeds not yet measured on our R9700s.
UD-Q6_K_XL 2 · split 8K not yet measured on our R9700s not yet measured on our R9700s 138.3 GB (estimate) 276.6 GB (estimate) 256 GB kit (estimate) Calculator Hugging Face LFS shard sum for unsloth/GLM-5.3-Flash-GGUF UD-Q6_K_XL (291.83 GB across 7 shards). Speeds not yet measured on our R9700s.
UD-Q5_K_XL 1 · single 8K not yet measured on our R9700s not yet measured on our R9700s 227.9 GB (estimate) 227.9 GB (estimate) 256 GB kit (estimate) Calculator Hugging Face LFS shard sum for unsloth/GLM-5.3-Flash-GGUF UD-Q5_K_XL (240.31 GB across 6 shards). Speeds not yet measured on our R9700s.
UD-Q5_K_XL 2 · split 8K not yet measured on our R9700s not yet measured on our R9700s 113.9 GB (estimate) 227.9 GB (estimate) 192 GB kit (estimate) Calculator Hugging Face LFS shard sum for unsloth/GLM-5.3-Flash-GGUF UD-Q5_K_XL (240.31 GB across 6 shards). Speeds not yet measured on our R9700s.
UD-Q4_K_XL 1 · single 8K not yet measured on our R9700s not yet measured on our R9700s 189.5 GB (estimate) 189.5 GB (estimate) 192 GB kit (estimate) Calculator Hugging Face LFS shard sum for unsloth/GLM-5.3-Flash-GGUF UD-Q4_K_XL (199.71 GB across 6 shards). Speeds not yet measured on our R9700s.
UD-Q4_K_XL 2 · split 8K not yet measured on our R9700s not yet measured on our R9700s 94.7 GB (estimate) 189.5 GB (estimate) 192 GB kit (estimate) Calculator Hugging Face LFS shard sum for unsloth/GLM-5.3-Flash-GGUF UD-Q4_K_XL (199.71 GB across 6 shards). Speeds not yet measured on our R9700s.
UD-Q3_K_XL estimate 1 · single 8K not yet measured on our R9700s not yet measured on our R9700s 140.2 GB (estimate) 140.2 GB (estimate) 192 GB kit (estimate) Calculator Hugging Face LFS shard sum for unsloth/GLM-5.3-Flash-GGUF UD-Q3_K_XL (147.54 GB across 4 shards). Q3 is a labeled estimate — not a local desktop run. Q3 is an option labeled estimate — not a local desktop run.
UD-Q3_K_XL estimate 2 · split 8K not yet measured on our R9700s not yet measured on our R9700s 70.1 GB (estimate) 140.2 GB (estimate) 128 GB kit (estimate) Calculator Hugging Face LFS shard sum for unsloth/GLM-5.3-Flash-GGUF UD-Q3_K_XL (147.54 GB across 4 shards). Q3 is a labeled estimate — not a local desktop run. Q3 is an option labeled estimate — not a local desktop run.

Launch commands

llama.cpp first. Strata only where this site already documents it. Flags marked on the recipe stay shape-only. Recommended context is 256K. vLLM, Ollama, and Transformers appear on the official card as secondary paths — they are not the AMDai default.

Open in Stack Lab

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llama.cpp · UD-Q4_K_XL · 8K

llama.cpp

llama.cpp · Vulkan · shape only

# Shape only — not a measured local desktop recipe.
./build-vk/bin/llama-server \
  -m ~/models/UD-Q4_K_XL/GLM-5.3-Flash-UD-Q4_K_XL-00001-of-00006.gguf \
  -ngl 99 \
  -c 8192 \
  --cache-type-k f16 \
  --cache-type-v f16 \
  --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8080

llama.cpp backend · Calculator · amdai-bench

Fit by GPU

Calculator VRAM at the shopper quant, 1 GPU and 2 GPUs (split). The R9700 35B one-card badge is the measured card; other SKUs stay estimates. Speed is not invented here. Offload rows still show both RAM labels on this page.

GLM 5.3 Flash calculator fit on cited /gpus sheets. 1 GPU and 2 GPU. Estimates unless marked measured.
GPU 1 GPU 2 GPU
Can R9700 run GLM 5.3 Flash? R9700 sheet · Estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate
Can PRO W7900 run GLM 5.3 Flash? PRO W7900 sheet · Estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate
Can PRO W7800 run GLM 5.3 Flash? PRO W7800 sheet · Estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate
Can PRO W7700 run GLM 5.3 Flash? PRO W7700 sheet · Estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate
Can PRO W6800 run GLM 5.3 Flash? PRO W6800 sheet · Estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate
Can RX 7900 XTX run GLM 5.3 Flash? RX 7900 XTX sheet · Estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate
Can RX 7900 XT run GLM 5.3 Flash? RX 7900 XT sheet · Estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate
Can RX 9070 XT run GLM 5.3 Flash? RX 9070 XT sheet · Estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate
Can RX 9070 run GLM 5.3 Flash? RX 9070 sheet · Estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate
Can RX 9070 GRE run GLM 5.3 Flash? RX 9070 GRE sheet · Estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate
Can RX 9060 XT run GLM 5.3 Flash? RX 9060 XT sheet · Estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate
Can RX 7900 GRE run GLM 5.3 Flash? RX 7900 GRE sheet · Estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate
Can RX 7800 XT run GLM 5.3 Flash? RX 7800 XT sheet · Estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate
Can RX 7700 XT run GLM 5.3 Flash? RX 7700 XT sheet · Estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate
Can RX 7600 XT run GLM 5.3 Flash? RX 7600 XT sheet · Estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate
Can RX 7600 run GLM 5.3 Flash? RX 7600 sheet · Estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate
Can RX 6800 XT run GLM 5.3 Flash? RX 6800 XT sheet · Estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate
Can RX 6950 XT run GLM 5.3 Flash? RX 6950 XT sheet · Estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate
Can RX 6700 XT run GLM 5.3 Flash? RX 6700 XT sheet · Estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate
Can Strix Halo run GLM 5.3 Flash? Strix Halo sheet · Estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate Does not fit this GPU 189.5 GB estimate

Compare with…

Head-to-head pages use the same sizes, cited context, and calculator fit already on the model pages. Q3 is a labeled estimate. No invented prices. GLM 5.3 Flash against the other cited /models pages:

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Recipes

Not yet measured on our R9700s — no house recipe yet.

Next steps

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