How fast will GLM-5.3 feel on the Mac mini M5 Pro 64GB?

GLM-5.3 on the Mac mini M5 Pro 64GB

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 Mac mini M5 Pro 64GB has 48 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 Mac mini M5 Pro 64GB

All models on the Mac mini M5 Pro 64GB · 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.