Can MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB run gpt-oss-120b?

Apple · 128 GB LPDDR5X · 546 GB/s bandwidth · OpenAI · 120.4B (active 5.1B) · MoE · model ctx up to 128K

Yes — the MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB (128 GB LPDDR5X) 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 128 GB. Decode at Q4/8K: ≈ 68.1 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	68.1 est.
Q4	8K default	68.24 GB	Yes	68.1 est.
Q4	32K	71.3 GB	Yes	68.1 est.
FP16	4K	242.31 GB	No	14.9 est.
FP16	8K default	242.82 GB	No	14.9 est.
FP16	32K	245.88 GB	No	14.5 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	MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB VRAM
Q4	66.22 GB	1.02 GB	1 GB	68.24 GB	128 GB
FP16	240.8 GB	1.02 GB	1 GB	242.82 GB	128 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 M3 Ultra 96GB — ≈102.2 tok/s Q4 est.
• Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB — ≈79.7 tok/s Q4 measured

All GPUs for gpt-oss-120b →

Other models for the MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB

• Qwen3-0.6B — ≈434.3 tok/s Q4 est.
• gemma-3-1b-it — ≈347.5 tok/s Q4 est.
• Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct — ≈289.5 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-1.7B — ≈173.7 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-30B-A3B — ≈115.8 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct — ≈115.8 tok/s Q4 est.
• GLM-4.7-Flash — ≈115.8 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 — ≈115.8 tok/s Q4 est.

All models on the MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB →