How fast will GLM-5.3 Flash feel on the MacBook Pro M5 Max 128GB?

GLM-5.3 Flash on the MacBook Pro M5 Max 128GB

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 MacBook Pro M5 Max 128GB has 96 GB usable, so it fits entirely in memory. Expect about 60 tokens/sec (36–85), with the first token after 0.4 s for a short prompt. This estimate is interpolated from benchmarks of similar setups.

Speed by quantization

QuantizationFile sizeMemoryGenerationFirst tokenSource
UD-IQ1_S93.1 GBFits60 tok/s0.4 sDerived
UD-IQ1_M97.6 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——
UD-IQ2_XXS101.8 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——
UD-Q2_K_XL108.7 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——
UD-IQ3_XXS120.4 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——
UD-Q3_K_XL147.5 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——
UD-IQ4_XS156.8 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——
UD-Q4_K_XL199.7 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——
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 MacBook Pro M5 Max 128GB

All models on the MacBook Pro M5 Max 128GB · 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.