GLM-5.3-Flash · RFA + RFI8 composite quant (8× R9700 / RDNA4)

A self-quantized derivative of zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash, tuned for 8× AMD Radeon R9700 (gfx1201 / RDNA4)

Model size bpw License: MIT Serving stack GPU


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This is a composite-quantized checkpoint of Z.ai's GLM-5.3-Flash — the first natively multimodal model in the GLM-5 series (321B total / ~18B active parameters). It was quantized from the official FP8 release using the tcclaviger/vllm composite quantizer and is intended to be served with vLLM on RDNA4 (AMD Radeon R9700) hardware.

📦 Companion serving repo: GLM-5.3-Flash-rocm-r9700 — the ROCm/RDNA4 overlay + quantization recipe.

Benchmark

Configuration GPQA Diamond Correct Empty Answered
GLM-5.3-Flash (Z-AI API) 80.8% 76 6 94
GLM-5.3-Flash-RFA-RFI8 85.1% 80 6 94

Details

  • Reasoning Effort: high
  • Max Output Len: 32k Tokens

Total Context Limit for each task in test 32k, means 6x tasks use more than 32k output tokens


Table of contents


Attribution & credits

Component Credit
Base model zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash (Z.ai, MIT)
Quantizer & quant kernels (RFA / RFI) tcclaviger/vllm:latest (IronLLM Labs)
RDNA4 port + quant recipe GLM-5.3-Flash-rocm-r9700 (this project's overlay)

The composite RFA + RFI8 quantization scheme, its kernels, and the serving runtime are provided by tcclaviger/vllm (IronLLM Labs). This checkpoint is the result of applying a quantization recipe (archspec + source patches + kda-remap, in the companion repo) on top of that stack, and a port of the GLM-5.3-Flash architecture to the RDNA4 serving path.


Quantization

The checkpoint mixes three schemes in one quant_method: "rfi" composite:

Scheme Bits Applied to Stored size
RFA 4.5 bpw MoE routed experts (42 layers × 288 experts) ~171.3 GB
RFI8 8 bpw attention / shared-expert / dense linears ~7.8 GB
BF16 / FP32 16 / 32 bpw embeddings, vision tower, norms, MTP layer ~18.7 GB

Average bits-per-weight

bpw = (total safetensors bytes × 8) / total parameters
    = (197,843,715,288 × 8) / 321,342,220,638
    = 4.9254  ≈  4.93 bpw
Metric Value
Total parameters 321,342,220,638 (~321.3B)
On-disk size 197.8 GB · 25 safetensors shards
Average bpw 4.9254 ≈ 4.93
vs. FP8 source 0.60× (197.8 GB vs 328.3 GB)
vs. BF16 0.31× (197.8 GB vs 642.7 GB)

Quick start

docker pull tcclaviger/vllm:latest

git clone https://huggingface.co/djdeniro/GLM-5.3-Flash-rocm-r9700 overlay

docker run --rm --tty --ipc=host --shm-size=128g \
  --device /dev/kfd:/dev/kfd --device /dev/dri:/dev/dri \
  -v /path/to/GLM-5.3-Flash-RFA-RFI8-8xR9700:/models:ro \
  -v "$PWD/overlay":/overlay:ro \
  --entrypoint bash tcclaviger/vllm:latest \
  -c "/overlay/apply_overlay.sh && exec vllm serve /models \
      --served-model-name glm53-flash --trust-remote-code --quantization rfi \
      --tensor-parallel-size 8 --gpu-memory-utilization 0.95 \
      --max-model-len 190080 --max-num-seqs 4 --kv-cache-dtype auto"

Model details

Property Value
Architecture Glm5NextForConditionalGeneration
Layers 45 = 34 KDA (linear attention) + 11 DSA (sparse-MLA)
Routed experts 288 (top-8) + 1 shared expert
Extra mHC hyper-connections, 1 nextn MTP draft layer, native vision tower
Context (bf16 KV) 190,080 tokens

Multimodal policy

Images are resized with aspect ratio preserved, clamped to min 384×384 / max 1280×1280, and fed with a min/max image-token budget. The model accepts image and video inputs natively.


Known limitations

  • MTP is disabled in the reference serving config (drafter KV-group blocker).
  • Serve with bf16 KV (--kv-cache-dtype auto) — fp8 KV with runtime scale calibration is broken on this architecture (garbage scales from the uninitialized KDA recurrent state).
  • Chat needs reasoning_effort="low" — the default Reasoning Effort Max spends 16k+ tokens thinking before producing content on long generations.

License

MIT. Base model © Z.ai (zai-org), MIT license. Quantizer & runtime © IronLLM Labs (tcclaviger/vllm).

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