gpt-oss 20B

20.9B total, 4.2B active · 128k context · apache-2.0 · released 2025-08-04

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What to run it on in the US

Fully in memory at 128k context, priced at retailers today.

Something we price holds it fully in memory, but none reaches 15 tok/s, our bar for recommending it. The table below has the speeds.

All hardware that runs it

Everything we price, best value first. Two cards split the model by layers.

HardwareQuantFitsDecodePricetok/s per 1,000
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090MXFP4fits62 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090MXFP4fits118 tok/s––
Mac Studio M4 Max 128GBMXFP4fits38 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090MXFP4fits66 tok/s––
Mac mini M4 Pro 64GBMXFP4fits19 tok/s––
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTXMXFP4fits56 tok/s––
Framework Desktop Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GBMXFP4fits15 tok/s––
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 512GBMXFP4fits57 tok/s––
NVIDIA DGX Spark 128GBMXFP4fits18 tok/s––
GMKtec EVO-X2 Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GBMXFP4fits15 tok/s––
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GBMXFP4fits57 tok/s––
Mac mini M4 Pro 48GBMXFP4fits19 tok/s––
Mac Studio M4 Max 64GBMXFP4fits38 tok/s––
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GBMXFP4fits57 tok/s––
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 BlackwellMXFP4fits118 tok/s––
AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700MXFP4fits37 tok/s––
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTMXFP4fits47 tok/s––
ASUS Ascent GX10 128GBMXFP4fits18 tok/s––
Framework Desktop Ryzen AI Max+ 395 64GBMXFP4fits15 tok/s––
Mac mini M4 32GBMXFP4fits8 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 TiMXFP4fits66 tok/s––
Intel Arc Pro B60MXFP4fits22 tok/s––
NVIDIA Tesla P40MXFP4fits23 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 TiMXFP4offload49 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GBMXFP4offload27 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GBMXFP4offload12 tok/s––
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XTMXFP4offload30 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GBMXFP4offload18 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080MXFP4offload51 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SuperMXFP4offload38 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070MXFP4offload15 tok/s––
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GBMXFP4offload17 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SuperMXFP4offload14 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SuperMXFP4offload41 tok/s––
AMD Radeon RX 7800 XTMXFP4offload29 tok/s––
Intel Arc B580MXFP4offload11 tok/s––
AMD Radeon RX 7600 XTMXFP4offload16 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GBMXFP4offload11 tok/s––
Intel Arc A770 16GBMXFP4offload23 tok/s––

1 other card or machine we price cannot hold it at this context.

Memory needed

Weights, KV cache and runtime buffers at each context length (KV cache at fp16).

QuantFile@8k@32k@64k@128k
MXFP4gguf11.3 GB12.2 GB12.9 GB13.9 GB15.7 GB

Run it

Copy a command for the runtime you use.

  • MXFP4
    • Ollamaollama run hf.co/ggml-org/gpt-oss-20b-GGUF:MXFP4
    • LM Studiolms get ggml-org/gpt-oss-20b-GGUF@mxfp4
    • llama.cppllama-server -hf ggml-org/gpt-oss-20b-GGUF:MXFP4