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What GPU do you need to run GLM-4.5-Air?

110.47B parameters, 12B active (mixture-of-experts) (Hugging Face, accessed 2026-10-15). Q4_K_M GGUF: 73.5 GB (source).

Single GPU that fitsVRAMSpeed estimatePrice
Apple Mac Studio M5 Ultra (64-core GPU, 96 GB)96 GB~114 tok/scheck price
Framework Desktop, AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 (Strix Halo), 192 GB192 GB~26 tok/slow $6,799 (new) source, 2026-10-16

Speed calculator estimate

Estimate = 0.76 × bandwidth ÷ GB read per token (Q4 file size, scaled by active/total parameters for MoE). Fit = file size + 1.5 GB headroom ≤ total VRAM. Multi-GPU: VRAM adds, speed uses one card's bandwidth (layer split). Short context only. How this works