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can it run

Can the Mac mini M4 (32GB) run gpt-oss 20B MoE?

YES

Comfortably. 32GB of memory against a 18GB working set leaves headroom for context, the OS, and anything else you're running.

~46–57 tok/s (active-expert estimate)

weights 14GB + KV cache 0.19GB at 4k context vs ~30GB usable → full. 14.2 GB needed of 30 GB usable — headroom for context

computed roofline: 120 GB/s × 0.80–1.00 efficiency window / 2.1GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

MoE: file is 14GB (that decides fit) but only ~3B of experts activate per token (~2.1GB streamed) — band below is the active-expert estimate, optimistic; community MoE rows run several× the naive bandwidth math

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Specs

model file14GB (GGUF Q4_K_M)
minimum memory18GB working set
this machine32GB unified
params20B MoE
licenseapache-2.0
price$999

Run it

model files: hugging face ↗

easy run: ollama pull gpt-oss:20b

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

Alternatives

ASUS ExpertCenter Pro ET900N G3 (GB300) — this model on the biggest machine

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