PaoAI/GLM-5.3-Flash-PaoAI-ROCmFP4-STRIX-MTP-GGUF
GLM-5.3-Flash-PaoAI-ROCmFP4-STRIX-MTP-GGUF
The pure-FP4 pool quant of GLM-5.3-Flash for AMD Strix Halo fleets. The whole model on the chip's native 4-bit format (159.2 GiB), designed to be split across two Strix Halo boxes over a direct link when one box isn't enough. The MTP draft head is preserved in the file — but note: on a 2-box pool, speculative decoding is OFF (pool round-trips eat the draft's gains; measured in our fleet).
Brand: PaoAI · community quant, not affiliated with Z.AI.
Who is this for?
You have two or more Strix Halo boxes connected directly (USB4/10GbE) and want the full GLM-5.3-Flash in native FP4 split across them. If you have ONE box, use our STRIX-BALANCED instead — a pool of this model loses to a solo smaller quant on both speed and simplicity.
The recipe
Measured on real hardware
Build source (required)
Both binaries need the glm5next arch and the FP4 type. Both live in [guevae2/ROCmFPX](https://github.com/guevae2/ROCmFPX), branch glm5next, commit `3345156` (glm5next arch + FP4 type merged; head of that branch — also buildable from kingjones30/ROCmFPX main once glm5next is upstreamed). Build with GGML_VULKAN=ON on Strix Halo (gfx1151).
How to run (2-box pool, direct link)
# halo-2 (worker):
ggml-rpc-server --host 0.0.0.0 --port 50052
# BG1 (head):
llama-server -m GLM-5.3-Flash-PaoAI-ROCmFP4-STRIX-MTP.gguf \
--host 0.0.0.0 --port 8081 -ngl 99 -c 32768 --parallel 1 \
--rpc <worker-ip>:50052 -fa on⚠️ Pool endpoint rule (learned the hard way): use the DIRECT box-to-box link addresses, never routes through a third machine — RPC traffic via a middle box deadlocks after load (head stuck in send, worker in recv).
Honest position
This is the largest and least convenient of our three models: it needs two boxes, delivers ~5.4 t/s, and can't run solo. We publish it because it completes the recipe set for fleet owners — and because the measurement behind it (pools reward lean bytes-per-token over small file size) is one of the core findings of our work.
Credits & license
- Z.AI — GLM-5.3-Flash base model (MIT license; included in repo)
- Unsloth — BF16 source + imatrix
- kingjones30 / charlie12345 — ROCmFPX format & recipes
- ggml-org — llama.cpp
- PaoAI — glm5next port, FP4 recipe, fleet benchmarking
MIT, same as the base model. Not affiliated with Z.AI.
