Can Laptop · Core Ultra 7 258V (Arc 140V) · 32 GB run GLM-4.5-Air (106B-A12B)?

Q: Can Laptop · Core Ultra 7 258V (Arc 140V) · 32 GB run GLM-4.5-Air (106B-A12B)?

No. It doesn't fit in memory. Rated by Local AI Advisor's engine at Q3_K_M.

32 GB unified · 136 GB/s memory bandwidth · GLM-4.5-Air (106B-A12B) has 110.5B parameters (12B active per token).

Short answer

No. It doesn't fit in memory.

Needs ≈53 GB but only ≈24 GB is available after the OS, other apps and Open WebUI.

Why it doesn’t fit

Even its smallest practical version (Q3_K_M) needs about 53 GB for the model, its context memory and the runtime. After Windows (≈4.5 GB), a browser with a few tabs (≈3.0 GB) and Open WebUI (≈1.0 GB), Laptop · Core Ultra 7 258V (Arc 140V) · 32 GB has about 24 GB left, so it’s 30 GB short.

Ways to make it work

Close everything else
Not enough on its own: with every other app closed it’s still about 27 GB short.
Pick a smaller model from the same family
- GLM-4.7-Flash (30B-A3B) Comfortable
- GLM-4.6V-Flash (10B) Acceptable
Get more memory
You’d want at least 62 GB of memory in total. The machines below are the cheapest that run it comfortably.
Check your exact setup
These pages assume typical settings. A shorter context or a lighter chat app can change the answer.
Check Laptop · Core Ultra 7 258V (Arc 140V) · 32 GB

The same applies to every workload we rate (chat, coding questions, coding in a repository, agentic coding and long documents): they all need at least as much memory as chat.

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Different tool, context size or workload?

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