No — not on this device

GLM-5.3-Flash 320B-A18B at Q4_K_M needs 181.2 GB against 10.6 GB usable, and the shortfall of 170.6 GB is more than 128 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 · 180.5 GB MIT Released 25 Aug 2026 New this week Vision Not in the Ollama library

The first natively multimodal GLM-5 and the first hybrid: 34 linear-attention blocks and 11 sparse-attention blocks with a 512-wide latent cache, so a 1M window stays affordable. Z.ai says it beats GLM-5.2 at 18B active; MIT.

What hardware do I need for GLM-5.3-Flash 320B-A18B? →

The VRAM budget

weights 180.5 GB
Weights 180.5 GB KV cache @ 8K 0.09 GB Runtime overhead 0.6 GB Over budget 170.6 GB past 10.6 GB

Quantisation ladder

QuantWeightsTotal @ 8KMax contextTok/sQualityFit
Q8_0 317.6 GB 318.3 GB ~0.8 −0.1% ppl 307.7 GB over
Q6_K 245.1 GB 245.8 GB ~1.1 −0.4% ppl 235.2 GB over
Q5_K_M 211.9 GB 212.6 GB ~1.2 −0.8% ppl 202.0 GB over
Q4_K_M 180.5 GB 181.2 GB ~1.5 −1.9% ppl 170.6 GB over
Q3_K_M 146.1 GB 146.8 GB ~1.8 −5.4% ppl 136.2 GB over
Q2_K 125.2 GB 125.9 GB ~2.1 −15% ppl 115.3 GB over

Quality is the published perplexity delta against f16 weights. Max context assumes an f16 KV cache; q8_0 roughly doubles it. Only 11 of its 45 blocks keep a per-token KV cache; the rest are linear-attention, Mamba or convolution blocks with a fixed-size state. 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-5.3-Flash:Q4_K_M \
    -c 8192 -ngl 2

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

01Download is 180.5 GB. Keep it on an SSD — a first load off a spinning disk takes minutes.
02Close anything else holding VRAM. A browser with hardware acceleration can sit on 1–2 GB.
03If it falls back to CPU silently, drop the context first, then step down a quantisation.
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