Can Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB run gpt-oss-120b?

Apple · 96 GB LPDDR5 · 819 GB/s bandwidth · OpenAI · 120.4B (active 5.1B) · MoE · model ctx up to 128K

Yes — the Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB (96 GB LPDDR5) can run gpt-oss-120b. At Q4 with the default 8K context it needs ≈ 68.24 GB VRAM (weights 66.22 GB + KV cache 1.02 GB + 1 GB runtime overhead), which fits within 96 GB. Decode at Q4/8K: ≈ 102.2 tok/s (estimated, batch 1). FP16 needs ≈ 242.82 GB — does not fit on this card. Estimates come from memory-bandwidth math; rows tagged measured override estimates. Relative ranking is more reliable than absolute tok/s. Methodology.

Fit & speed by quant and context

Quant	Context	VRAM needed	Fits?	tok/s (decode)
Q4	4K	67.73 GB	Yes	102.2 est.
Q4	8K default	68.24 GB	Yes	102.2 est.
Q4	32K	71.3 GB	Yes	102.2 est.
FP16	4K	242.31 GB	No	12.6 est.
FP16	8K default	242.82 GB	No	12.6 est.
FP16	32K	245.88 GB	No	12.2 est.

Fits = weights + KV(ctx) + 1 GB overhead ≤ 95% of VRAM. Measured anchors are context-agnostic; the fit verdict is recomputed per context. A missing tok/s means the model is far beyond this card (offload-only territory).

VRAM breakdown at 8K context

Quant	Weights	KV cache	Overhead	Total needed	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB VRAM
Q4	66.22 GB	1.02 GB	1 GB	68.24 GB	96 GB
FP16	240.8 GB	1.02 GB	1 GB	242.82 GB	96 GB

Other GPUs that run gpt-oss-120b

• B200 192GB SXM — ≈998.2 tok/s Q4 est.
• MI300X 192GB — ≈661.3 tok/s Q4 est.
• H200 141GB SXM5 — ≈598.9 tok/s Q4 est.
• H100 80GB SXM5 — ≈418.0 tok/s Q4 est.
• Gaudi 3 128GB — ≈408.8 tok/s Q4 est.
• A100 80GB SXM4 — ≈254.4 tok/s Q4 est.
• Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB — ≈79.7 tok/s Q4 measured
• MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB — ≈68.1 tok/s Q4 est.

All GPUs for gpt-oss-120b →

Other models for the Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB

• Qwen3-0.6B — ≈651.5 tok/s Q4 est.
• gemma-3-1b-it — ≈521.2 tok/s Q4 est.
• Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct — ≈434.3 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-1.7B — ≈260.6 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-30B-A3B — ≈173.7 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct — ≈173.7 tok/s Q4 est.
• GLM-4.7-Flash — ≈173.7 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 — ≈173.7 tok/s Q4 est.

All models on the Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB →