GLM-4-9B-Chat
9BZhipu GLM-4
Zhipu GLM-4 open 9B with 128K context, tool calling, and strong bilingual (EN/ZH) performance.
131K
Max Context
3
Quant Variants
GGUF Q8_0
Best Quality
99.6%
Accuracy Retained
Quantization Variants
Per-quant VRAM, quality loss, and inference speed on RTX 4090
Measured = run on this site · Estimated = not run here: calculated, or a figure this site has not verified · Community = public reports
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Running GLM-4-9B-Chat locally
At Q4_K_M and 4K of context, GLM-4-9B-Chat needs about 5.9 GB — 5.2 GB of weights, 0.16 GB of KV cache and a 0.5 GB activation buffer. The smallest cards in this index that clear that comfortably are 8 GB ones — 9 of them, from the RTX 4060 up — and 76 of the 78 cards here do. These are calculated figures, not measurements: the estimate stops counting a card as comfortable at 88% of its VRAM, which is roughly the room a desktop session needs.
What longer context costs
Going from 4K to 32K adds about 1.09 GB, taking the total to 7.1 GB. Weights do not move with context — only the KV cache does, and it grows linearly, so this is the number to watch when planning for long documents. The model's native window is 128K; holding all of it at Q4_K_M would need about 11 GB.
Which build to download
This index tracks 2 formats for it — GGUF, AWQ — across 3 levels. Q8_0 carries the lowest published perplexity loss at 0.4%. The fastest level listed is AWQ INT4 at about 178 tok/s on an RTX 4090, batch 1 — an estimate, not a run on this site's hardware. GGUF runs on llama.cpp and Ollama across NVIDIA, AMD and Apple silicon; AWQ and GPTQ target vLLM on CUDA and ROCm; EXL2 is ExLlamaV2 — CUDA only, and now archived, so local use rather than serving.
Common questions
- How much VRAM does GLM-4-9B-Chat need?
- About 5.9 GB at Q4_K_M with 4K of context and batch 1, rising to roughly 7.1 GB at 32K. That figure is weights plus KV cache plus a 10% activation buffer, calculated from the model's architecture rather than measured on a card.
- Will GLM-4-9B-Chat run on a 8GB GPU?
- Yes — at Q4_K_M and 4K context it needs about 5.9 GB, which leaves 2.1 GB spare on a RTX 4060, or on any of the other 8 GB cards here (9 in all). That is the smallest size in this index that clears it comfortably; 76 of 78 do.
- Which quantization of GLM-4-9B-Chat should I use?
- Q8_0 has the lowest published quality loss (0.4%), and Q4_K_M is the level most people run. All 3 levels in the index are Q4_K_M, Q8_0, AWQ INT4.
Where this model fits
Sized at Q4_K_M with a 4K context window, smallest card first. Comfortable means the estimate uses at most 88% of the memory.
- Runs comfortably on
- RTX 40608GB · +2.1RTX 4060 Ti 8G8GB · +2.1Radeon RX 9060 XT 8G8GB · +2.1RTX 5060 Ti 8G8GB · +2.1RTX 50608GB · +2.1
- Tight but possible
- Mac M1 8G8GBMac M3 8G8GB
- Compared here
- GGUF vs AWQ
- Try it yourself
- Size it in the calculatorGenerate the run command
How to actually run this
Deployment guides for this model and this class of hardware.
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