How GLM-5.2 Runs Locally Explained

rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-07-10

This cross-post reiterates that MoE models like GLM-5.2 can run on consumer machines with 25GB of RAM, albeit very slowly.

The post explains how MoE sparse activation, storing expert weights on NVMe, LRU caching, and compressed KV cache work together to reduce memory usage, and why the performance bottleneck shifts to SSD bandwidth and cache hit rates.

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