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 8k 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 3090MXFP4fits132 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090MXFP4fits253 tok/s––
Mac Studio M4 Max 128GBMXFP4fits81 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090MXFP4fits142 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 TiMXFP4fits127 tok/s––
Mac mini M4 Pro 64GBMXFP4fits40 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GBMXFP4fits63 tok/s––
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTXMXFP4fits120 tok/s––
Framework Desktop Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GBMXFP4fits32 tok/s––
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 512GBMXFP4fits121 tok/s––
NVIDIA DGX Spark 128GBMXFP4fits39 tok/s––
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XTMXFP4fits80 tok/s––
GMKtec EVO-X2 Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GBMXFP4fits32 tok/s––
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GBMXFP4fits121 tok/s––
Mac mini M4 Pro 48GBMXFP4fits40 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GBMXFP4fits41 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080MXFP4fits136 tok/s––
Mac Studio M4 Max 64GBMXFP4fits81 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SuperMXFP4fits95 tok/s––
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GBMXFP4fits40 tok/s––
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GBMXFP4fits121 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SuperMXFP4fits104 tok/s––
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 BlackwellMXFP4fits253 tok/s––
AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700MXFP4fits80 tok/s––
AMD Radeon RX 7800 XTMXFP4fits78 tok/s––
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTMXFP4fits100 tok/s––
ASUS Ascent GX10 128GBMXFP4fits39 tok/s––
Framework Desktop Ryzen AI Max+ 395 64GBMXFP4fits32 tok/s––
Mac mini M4 32GBMXFP4fits18 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 TiMXFP4fits142 tok/s––
AMD Radeon RX 7600 XTMXFP4fits36 tok/s––
Intel Arc Pro B60MXFP4fits48 tok/s––
NVIDIA Tesla P40MXFP4fits49 tok/s––
Intel Arc A770 16GBMXFP4fits59 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GBMXFP4offload42 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070MXFP4offload64 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SuperMXFP4offload53 tok/s––
Intel Arc B580MXFP4offload36 tok/s––
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GBMXFP4offload37 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