Macs that run GLM-5.3 753B
At 4-bit with a 32K-token context. Speeds are estimates; see real measurements on the calculator page.
-
2× Mac Studio M5 Ultra 256GB Cluster Cluster21–29 tokens/sec · tight fitfrom $2,399/mo Available Nov 16, 2026Order
-
Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB22–31 tokens/sec · tight fitfrom $2,499/mo Available Dec 30, 2026Order
-
2× Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB Cluster Best value Cluster21–29 tokens/secfrom $4,999/mo Available Dec 30, 2026Order
-
4× Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB Cluster Cluster20–26 tokens/secfrom $9,999/mo Available Dec 30, 2026Order
Why it runs well on a Mac
Language models have to sit entirely in memory, and generating each word means reading through them again. Apple Silicon puts up to 512 GB of fast unified memory on one chip that the GPU can use directly, so a model like this fits on one quiet machine instead of a stack of graphics cards.
GLM-5.3 753B is a mixture-of-experts model: of its 753 billion parameters, only about 40 billion are used for each word. It needs memory for all of them but runs at the speed of a much smaller model.