How fast will GLM-5.3 Flash feel on the CPU-only (Ryzen 9 9950X, 96GB DDR5)?

GLM-5.3 Flash on the CPU-only (Ryzen 9 9950X, 96GB DDR5)

GLM-5.3 Flash is a 321.3B-parameter mixture-of-experts model (18B active per token). At UD-IQ1_S it needs about 93.8 GB of memory. The CPU-only (Ryzen 9 9950X, 96GB DDR5) has 89 GB usable, so it only fits with part of the model offloaded to system RAM, which slows it down. Expect about 14 tokens/sec (5.5–23), with the first token after 2.0 s for a short prompt. This estimate is projected from the hardware specs; no benchmarks exist yet.

Speed by quantization

QuantizationFile sizeMemoryGenerationFirst tokenSource
UD-IQ1_S93.1 GBPartial offload14 tok/s2.0 sProjected
UD-IQ1_M97.6 GBPartial offload14 tok/s2.0 sProjected
UD-IQ2_XXS101.8 GBPartial offload13 tok/s2.0 sProjected
UD-Q2_K_XL108.7 GBPartial offload12 tok/s2.0 sProjected
UD-IQ3_XXS120.4 GBPartial offload11 tok/s2.0 sProjected
UD-Q3_K_XL147.5 GBPartial offload8.4 tok/s2.0 sProjected
UD-IQ4_XS156.8 GBPartial offload7.8 tok/s2.0 sProjected
UD-Q4_K_XL199.7 GBPartial offload6.0 tok/s2.0 sProjected
UD-Q5_K_XL240.3 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——
UD-Q6_K_XL291.8 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——
Q8_0341.0 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——
FP16642.8 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——

GLM-5.3 Flash on other hardware

Other models on the CPU-only (Ryzen 9 9950X, 96GB DDR5)

All models on the CPU-only (Ryzen 9 9950X, 96GB DDR5) · GLM-5.3 Flash on all hardware

Estimates for a short prompt on a single device. Measured numbers come from community benchmarks (r/LocalLLaMA, localscore.ai and more); others are derived from similar setups or projected from specs. Open source on GitHub.