No — not on this device

GLM-5.2 744B-A40B at Q4_K_M needs 424.7 GB against 204.8 GB usable, and the shortfall of 219.9 GB is more than 32 GB of system RAM can cover at a tolerable speed. A smaller sibling or a lower quantisation is the honest answer here.

Does not fit 8K context Q4_K_M · 423.4 GB MIT Released 13 Jun 2026 Not in the Ollama library

The strongest all-round open-weight model of mid-2026 on most public boards. Listed as a ceiling: 512 GB of unified memory at Q4.

What hardware do I need for GLM-5.2 744B-A40B? →

Fits instead: GLM-4.7-Flash 30B-A3B (18.6 GB)

The VRAM budget

weights 423.4 GB
Weights 423.4 GB KV cache @ 8K 0.69 GB Runtime overhead 0.6 GB Over budget 219.9 GB past 204.8 GB

Quantisation ladder

QuantWeightsTotal @ 8KMax contextTok/sQualityFit
Q8_0 745.1 GB 746.4 GB ~1.4 −0.1% ppl 541.6 GB over
Q6_K 575.1 GB 576.3 GB ~1.9 −0.4% ppl 371.5 GB over
Q5_K_M 497.0 GB 498.3 GB ~2.2 −0.8% ppl 293.5 GB over
Q4_K_M 423.4 GB 424.7 GB ~2.5 −1.9% ppl 219.9 GB over
Q3_K_M 342.8 GB 344.0 GB ~3.1 −5.4% ppl 139.2 GB over
Q2_K 293.7 GB 294.9 GB ~3.7 −15% ppl 90.1 GB over

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

terminal
$ llama-server \
    -hf zai-org/GLM-5.2:Q4_K_M \
    -c 8192 -ngl 37

The engine underneath most of the others. Every knob is exposed. More on llama.cpp.

01Download is 423.4 GB. Keep it on an SSD — a first load off a spinning disk takes minutes.
02With no GPU, thread count matters more than clock. Start at one thread per physical core.
03If it falls back to CPU silently, drop the context first, then step down a quantisation.
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