GLM-4.1V-Thinking TPS calculator

Open weights Z.ai (Zhipu AI),Tsinghua University 9B parameters August 2025

Each card below is assessed against this model at the context length and minimum quality you choose. Speed is an estimate for a single request, calculated from the card's memory bandwidth and the size of the model once compressed.

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582 cards that can run it

818 cards we hold specifications for

Smallest card that fits

Quadro 6000

6 GB · Q3_K_M · 15.5 tok/s

Fastest card

B200

376 tok/s · 180 GB

Which GPUs can run GLM-4.1V-Thinking?

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A longer conversation needs more memory, which can push this model off smaller cards.

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582 cards match

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					Needs	Quantisation	Fit
376 tok/s 226–602 · low confidence	B200 NVIDIA	180 GB	8,000 GB/s	Jan 2024	10.3 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
376 tok/s 226–602 · low confidence	B300 NVIDIA	288 GB	8,000 GB/s	Sep 2025	10.3 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
301 tok/s 180–481 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI350X AMD	288 GB	8,190 GB/s	Jan 2025	10.3 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
301 tok/s 180–481 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI355X AMD	288 GB	8,190 GB/s	Jan 2025	10.3 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
240 tok/s 144–385 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI300 AMD	128 GB	6,550 GB/s	Jan 2023	10.3 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
230 tok/s 138–368 · low confidence	H200 NVL NVIDIA	141 GB	4,890 GB/s	Nov 2024	10.3 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
230 tok/s 138–368 · low confidence	H200 SXM 141 GB NVIDIA	141 GB	4,890 GB/s	Nov 2024	10.3 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
220 tok/s 132–352 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI325X AMD	256 GB	6,000 GB/s	Oct 2024	10.3 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
195 tok/s 117–313 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI300A AMD	128 GB	5,325 GB/s	Dec 2023	10.3 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
195 tok/s 117–313 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI300X AMD	192 GB	5,325 GB/s	Dec 2023	10.3 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
195 tok/s 117–313 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI308X AMD	192 GB	5,325 GB/s	Dec 2023	10.3 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
185 tok/s 111–297 · low confidence	H100 NVL 94 GB NVIDIA	94 GB	3,940 GB/s	Mar 2023	10.3 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
158 tok/s 95–253 · low confidence	H100 PCIe 96 GB NVIDIA	96 GB	3,360 GB/s	Mar 2023	10.3 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
158 tok/s 95–253 · low confidence	H100 SXM5 80 GB NVIDIA	80 GB	3,360 GB/s	Oct 2022	10.3 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
158 tok/s 95–253 · low confidence	H100 SXM5 94 GB NVIDIA	94 GB	3,360 GB/s	Mar 2023	10.3 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
158 tok/s 95–253 · low confidence	H100 SXM5 96 GB NVIDIA	96 GB	3,360 GB/s	Mar 2023	10.3 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
158 tok/s 95–253 · low confidence	H800 SXM5 NVIDIA	80 GB	3,360 GB/s	Mar 2023	10.3 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
125 tok/s 75–200 · low confidence	CMP 170HX 8 GB NVIDIA	8 GB	1,490 GB/s	Sep 2021	7.2 GB	Q5_K_M	Tight
120 tok/s 72–193 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI250 AMD	128 GB	3,280 GB/s	Nov 2021	10.3 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
120 tok/s 72–193 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI250X AMD	128 GB	3,280 GB/s	Nov 2021	10.3 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
107 tok/s 64–171 · low confidence	CMP 170HX 10 GB NVIDIA	10 GB	1,560 GB/s	Sep 2021	8.2 GB	Q6_K	Tight
100 tok/s 60–161 · low confidence	Data Center GPU Max 1550 Intel	128 GB	3,280 GB/s	Jan 2023	10.3 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
98.2 tok/s 59–157 · low confidence	Data Center GPU Max Subsystem Intel	128 GB	3,210 GB/s	Jan 2023	10.3 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
96.0 tok/s 58–154 · low confidence	A100 SXM4 80 GB NVIDIA	80 GB	2,040 GB/s	Nov 2020	10.3 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
96.0 tok/s 58–154 · low confidence	A100X NVIDIA	80 GB	2,040 GB/s	Jun 2021	10.3 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable

Speeds are estimates for a single request — one conversation at a time — calculated from memory bandwidth, model size and quantisation. Real throughput varies with the inference runtime and its version. Figures published by hardware vendors measure many simultaneous requests and are much higher.

On record

Full specification

Everything on record for this model. Most of it describes how it was trained rather than how it runs — useful context for judging how much work went into it, and how it compares with models built at a different scale.

Origin

Who built this model, where, and when it was published.

Organisation: Z.ai (Zhipu AI),Tsinghua University
Organisation type: Industry,Academia
Country: China
Published: 15 August 2025
Authors: GLM-V Team: Wenyi Hong, Wenmeng Yu, Xiaotao Gu, Guo Wang, Guobing Gan, Haomiao Tang, Jiale Cheng, Ji Qi, Junhui Ji, Lihang Pan, Shuaiqi Duan, Weihan Wang, Yan Wang, Yean Cheng, Zehai He, Zhe Su, Zhen Yang, Ziyang Pan, Aohan Zeng, Baoxu Wang, Bin Chen, Boyan Shi, Changyu Pang, Chenhui Zhang, Da Yin, Fan Yang, Guoqing Chen, Jiazheng Xu, Jiale Zhu, Jiali Chen, Jing Chen, Jinhao Chen, Jinghao Lin, Jin…

What it does

The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.

Domain: Multimodal, Vision, Language
Task: Language modeling/generation, Question answering, Visual question answering, Image captioning
Base model: GLM-4-9B-0414

Size

How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.

Parameters: 9B
Training data: tokens

Training compute

The arithmetic performed to train the model, measured in floating-point operations. It is a measure of what the training run cost, not of how fast the finished model answers you.

Training compute: 9.2 × 10²³ FLOP
How it was established: Operation counting
Fine-tuning compute: 1.1 × 10²³ FLOP

Availability

Whether you can obtain the model and run it on your own hardware, which is what decides if any of the graphics-card figures on this page apply.

Weights: Open — downloadable
Model access: Open weights (unrestricted)
Training code: Unreleased
Hugging Face: zai-org

How it is classified

Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.

Record confidence: Likely

Sources

Where this record came from and when it was last checked.

Reference: GLM-4.5V and GLM-4.1V-Thinking: Towards Versatile Multimodal Reasoning with Scalable Reinforcement Learning
Last updated: 28 November 2025

The extremes

The ten fastest GPUs that run GLM-4.1V-Thinking

Ranked by estimated tokens per second, newest card first where speeds tie. Because generation is bound by memory bandwidth, this ordering follows bandwidth rather than any gaming benchmark.

The smallest GPUs that still run GLM-4.1V-Thinking

The cheapest route in, by memory capacity. A tight fit runs the model but leaves nothing spare for a longer conversation.

What the numbers mean

What it takes to run this model

Minimum card

Quadro 6000

Memory needed

5.1 GB

Fastest

376 tok/s

GLM-4.1V-Thinking reaches a parameter count of 9B. That is small enough that hardware is rarely the obstacle, including on cards several years old. The number of cards we track that can run it: 582.

The smallest card that holds it is Quadro 6000, with a memory capacity of 6 GB, running it at a compression of Q3_K_M and producing around 15.5 tokens per second.

The fastest we calculate for it is B200, generating roughly 376 tokens per second on the strength of a memory bandwidth of 8,000 GB/s.

Background

GLM-4.1V-Thinking was published by Z.ai (Zhipu AI),Tsinghua University, in the country recorded as China, during August 2025. It comes out of an organisation categorised as industry,Academia.

It works in the domain of Multimodal, Vision, Language, and is recorded as performing the task of language modeling/generation, Question answering, Visual question answering, Image captioning.

Its starting point was an existing base model, GLM-4-9B-0414. That is the usual way a specialised model is produced.

Because its weights were released, nothing about running it depends on a provider staying available — it is yours once downloaded. On Hugging Face it is published under the organisation zai-org.

Reading the throughput figures

Half the cards that hold it manage more than 21.1 tokens per second. Clearing the ten tokens per second that roughly matches reading speed: 541 of them.

Being dense, it reads all of itself per token, which is why the ordering by speed below follows the ordering by memory bandwidth so closely.

Without the attention layout on record, the memory column is an approximation. It is close enough to choose hardware by, and least reliable at long context.

Training and provenance

The training run consumed about 9.2 × 10²³ FLOP. That figure measures what producing the model cost, and has no bearing on how fast it answers.

Step by step

How to choose a GPU for GLM-4.1V-Thinking

The table above has already assessed every card we hold specifications for against this model. Getting to your answer takes six steps.

01

Check what it needs before anything else

The table lists every card able to hold GLM-4.1V-Thinking, needing around 5.1 GB at a compression of Q3_K_M. That figure, not the headline performance of a card, is what decides whether it runs.
02

Set the context length you will work at

Set the context to what you will actually use. The cache grows with the conversation, and it is the usual reason a card that seemed fine stops fitting GLM-4.1V-Thinking.
03

Choose how far you will compress it

Compression is what makes a model fit smaller cards, at some cost in accuracy, reaching a compression of Q3_K_M on the smallest card that fits. Setting a minimum quality drops the cards that only manage it by squeezing further than you would want, and holds the comparison at one level.
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Sort by speed

Sort by speed to see how cards rank for GLM-4.1V-Thinking. It will not match a gaming ordering, because generation is bound by memory bandwidth. The card topping the list is B200, at 376 tok/s.
05

Check the fit verdict before buying

A tight fit runs, but leaves nothing spare for a longer conversation, in the case of GLM-4.1V-Thinking. Comfortable means you can grow the context later. That difference matters more than a few tokens per second, so buy for comfortable if you expect to.
06

Check the card from the other side

Following a card through to its own page shows every other model it can hold, which is the question that follows once you have settled on GLM-4.1V-Thinking.

Answers

GLM-4.1V-Thinking — common questions

GLM-4.1V-Thinking— can I run it on a GPU holding 12 GB?

Yes. The card GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, holding 12 GB, runs it at a compression of Q8_0, using about 10.3 GB and generating roughly 42.9 tokens per second. The fit is tight.

GLM-4.1V-Thinking— can I run it on a GPU holding 16 GB?

Yes. The card Tesla V100 SXM2 16 GB, holding 16 GB, runs it at a compression of Q8_0, using about 10.3 GB and generating roughly 53.2 tokens per second. The fit is comfortable.

GLM-4.1V-Thinking— can I run it on a GPU holding 24 GB?

Yes. The card GeForce RTX 5090 D V2, holding 24 GB, runs it at a compression of Q8_0, using about 10.3 GB and generating roughly 63.1 tokens per second. The fit is comfortable.

GLM-4.1V-Thinking— is it open source?

Its weights are published, so it can be downloaded and run on your own hardware. Note that open weights is not the same as open source in the full sense — it says nothing about the training data, the training code, or the commercial terms attached.

GLM-4.1V-Thinking— how many parameters does it have?

It has a parameter count of 9B. 9B. That figure is the total, and it is what decides how much memory the model needs — roughly half a gigabyte per billion at the compression most people use.

GLM-4.1V-Thinking— who created it?

It was published by Z.ai (Zhipu AI),Tsinghua University, based in China, an organisation categorised as industry,Academia.

GLM-4.1V-Thinking— when was it released?

It was published in August 2025.

GLM-4.1V-Thinking— what is it used for?

It works in the domain of Multimodal, Vision, Language, and is recorded as handling the task of language modeling/generation, Question answering, Visual question answering, Image captioning. A model can carry several of each, so these are the areas it was built for rather than a limit on what it will attempt.

GLM-4.1V-Thinking— where can I download it?

Its weights are published on Hugging Face, under the organisation zai-org. We do not host model files — this site calculates what hardware is needed to run them.

GLM-4.1V-Thinking— how much compute was used to train it?

Training consumed around 9.2 × 10²³ FLOP. That measures what producing the model cost and says nothing about how quickly it answers once trained — inference speed comes from memory bandwidth, not from the training budget.

GLM-4.1V-Thinking— can I run it if it does not fit in my GPU?

Only by offloading, which is usually a false economy: the part held in system memory drags the whole thing down. The nearest miss we calculate falls short by 1.6 GB. Every figure here assumes the whole model is resident on the card.

GLM-4.1V-Thinking— would two GPUs run it faster?

Two cards buy memory rather than speed, which matters only if one card cannot hold it. The number that can: 582. So a second card is rarely the answer here.

GLM-4.1V-Thinking— why does the quantisation differ between cards?

Because capacity varies, so does how hard it has to be squeezed. The number of distinct levels in the table above: 4. Bigger cards get the more accurate version, and the quality floor above pins the comparison to one level.

GLM-4.1V-Thinking— how accurate are these speed estimates?

Every figure is derived from memory bandwidth and model size, not benchmarked, which is why each is published as a range rather than a single number. One example: 226–602 tok/s on B200. The same model and card vary by thirty to fifty per cent depending on the inference software and its version.

GLM-4.1V-Thinking— what GPU do I need to run it?

The smallest card in our catalogue that holds it is Quadro 6000, with a memory capacity of 6 GB. It runs the model at a compression of Q3_K_M using about 5.1 GB, and produces roughly 15.5 tokens per second. The number of cards able to run it in total: 582.

GLM-4.1V-Thinking— how fast is it on a GPU?

It depends on the card. The quickest we calculate is B200, at about 376 tokens per second; the slowest that still runs it manages considerably less. Reading speed is around ten tokens per second, and the number of cards clearing that: 541.

GLM-4.1V-Thinking— how much VRAM does it need?

It needs about 5.1 GB at a compression of Q3_K_M, which is what the smallest card that runs it uses. Less compression needs more: the figures in the memory column above are recalculated for each card, because each one holds the least-compressed version it can.

GLM-4.1V-Thinking— can I run it on a GPU holding 8 GB?

Yes. The card CMP 170HX 8 GB, holding 8 GB, runs it at a compression of Q5_K_M, using about 7.2 GB and generating roughly 125 tokens per second. The fit is tight.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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