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Can the Apple M4 Max run gpt-oss 120B MoE?

NO

65.3 GB vs 34 GB usable — does not fit

~34GB usable · Apple M4 Max · model file 65GB · 120B MoE

~31–45 tok/s (active-expert estimate)

computed roofline: 546 GB/s × 0.55–0.80 efficiency window / 9.8GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

MoE: file is 65GB (that decides fit) but only ~18B of experts activate per token (~9.8GB streamed) — band below is the active-expert estimate, optimistic; community MoE rows run several× the naive bandwidth math

Run gpt-oss 120B MoE on instead

NIMO AI Mini PC (128GB) — cheapest catalog machine that runs gpt-oss 120B MoE fully ($1999)

every model the Apple M4 Max can run — full list

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2026-09-17 · ← all models on the Apple M4 Max · fit = weights + 4k KV vs usable memory