Yes — with 8.4 GB to spare

GLM-4.7-Flash 30B-A3B at Q4_K_M fits your M3 Pro · 36 GB entirely in unified memory at 8K context, at an estimated 23 tokens per second. Past 171K the KV cache pushes it over — quantise the cache to q8_0, or step down a quantisation, to go longer.

Fully in unified memory 8K context Q4_K_M · 17.5 GB MIT Released 20 Jan 2026

MIT-licensed 30B-A3B tuned for agentic coding, with a DeepSeek-style latent KV cache. 60–80 tok/s reported on a 4090.

What hardware do I need for GLM-4.7-Flash 30B-A3B? →

The VRAM budget

weights 17.5 GB

Weights 17.5 GB KV cache @ 8K 0.41 GB Runtime overhead 0.6 GB Free 8.4 GB of 27.0 GB

Quantisation ladder

Quant	Weights	Total @ 8K	Max context	Tok/s	Quality	Fit
Q8_0	30.9 GB	31.9 GB	—	~13	−0.1% ppl	4.9 GB over
Q6_K	23.8 GB	24.8 GB	49K	17	−0.4% ppl	Long context
Q5_K_M	20.6 GB	21.6 GB	112K	20	−0.8% ppl	Long context
Q4_K_M	17.5 GB	18.6 GB	171K	23	−1.9% ppl	Recommended
Q3_K_M	14.2 GB	15.2 GB	198K	29	−5.4% ppl	Long context
Q2_K	12.2 GB	13.2 GB	198K	33	−15% ppl	Long context

Quality is the published perplexity delta against f16 weights. Max context assumes an f16 KV cache; q8_0 roughly doubles it. This model uses multi-head latent attention, so its cache is a compressed latent rather than full K and V.

How to run it

Ollama llama.cpp LM Studio MLX

terminal

$ pip install mlx-lm
$ mlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/GLM-4.7-Flash-4bit \
    --max-tokens 512 --prompt "Hello"

Apple's own array framework. The fastest path on Apple Silicon. More on MLX.

01Download is 17.5 GB. Keep it on an SSD — a first load off a spinning disk takes minutes.

02macOS caps what the GPU may wire down at about 27.0 GB of 36 GB. Raising it with iogpu.wired_limit_mb is possible, and risky.

03There is room to go to 171K context on this card.

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