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can it run

Can the Mac mini M4 (32GB) run gpt-oss 120B MoE?

NO

No. 32GB of memory can't hold the 82GB working set this model needs. A smaller quant or a bigger machine is required.

~9.8–12 tok/s (active-expert estimate)

weights 65GB + KV cache 0.28GB at 4k context vs ~30GB usable → no. 65.3 GB vs 30 GB usable — does not fit

computed roofline: 120 GB/s × 0.80–1.00 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 machine32GB unified
params120B MoE
licenseapache-2.0
price$999

Run it

model files: hugging face ↗

easy run: ollama pull gpt-oss:120b

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

Alternatives

NIMO AI Mini PC (128GB) — cheapest machine that runs it ($1999)

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