How fast will GLM-5.3 feel on the MacBook M4 Pro 24GB?

GLM-5.3 on the MacBook M4 Pro 24GB

GLM-5.3 is a 753.33B-parameter mixture-of-experts model (39B active per token). At UD-IQ1_S it needs about 217.5 GB of memory. The MacBook M4 Pro 24GB has 18 GB usable, so it doesn't fit, even at its smallest quantization.

Speed by quantization

QuantizationFile sizeMemoryGenerationFirst tokenSource
UD-IQ1_S216.7 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——
UD-Q2_K_XL253.9 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——
UD-IQ3_XXS281.7 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——
UD-Q3_K_XL343.0 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——
UD-IQ4_XS365.3 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——
UD-Q4_K_XL467.3 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——
Q8_0801.4 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——
FP161508.0 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——

GLM-5.3 on other hardware

Other models on the MacBook M4 Pro 24GB

All models on the MacBook M4 Pro 24GB · GLM-5.3 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.