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Can the GTX 1080 Ti (11GB, used) run gpt-oss 120B MoE?

NO

No. 11GB of memory can't hold the 82GB working set this model needs. A smaller quant or a bigger machine is required.

~14–25 tok/s (active-expert estimate)

weights 65GB + KV cache 0.28GB at 4k context vs ~11GB usable → no. 65.3 GB vs 11 GB usable — does not fit

computed roofline: 484 GB/s × 0.28–0.50 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

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Specs

model file65GB (GGUF Q4_K_M)
minimum memory82GB working set
this machine11GB GDDR5X, 484 GB/s
params120B MoE
licenseapache-2.0
price$275

Run it

model files: hugging face ↗

easy run: ollama pull gpt-oss:120b

runs with: ollama · llama.cpp · koboldcpp · lm studio

Alternatives

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