M5 Ultra Mac Studio tested with GLM-5.3-Flash

A user tested GLM-5.3-Flash and other models on an M5 Ultra 256GB 80-core Mac Studio over many rounds of agentic inference, finding performance satisfying but the GPU clearly underpowered for the RAM, suggesting a 512GB unit may be GPU-bottlenecked.

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