gpt-oss on Apple M1 · 8GB

❌ Won't fit — gpt-oss 120B-A5.1B (MoE) @ MXFP4
gpt-oss 120B-A5.1B (MoE) at MXFP4 needs ~62.5 GB (weights 59.0 GB + KV 576 MB + overhead 3.0 GB @ 8K ctx) — more than your 2.9 GB usable of 8.0 GB unified. Try a smaller model or a lower quant.
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✗ MXFP462.5 GB—

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Same model, other machines: Apple M1 Pro · Apple M2 · Apple M3 Pro · Apple M2 Pro · Apple M4 Pro · Apple M3 Max

Also runs on a Apple M1: DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen2.5 · Qwen3 · Llama 3.2 · Gemma 2

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