gpt-oss on Apple M2 Max · 64GB

✅ Runs comfortably — gpt-oss 20B-A3.6B (MoE) @ MXFP4
gpt-oss 20B-A3.6B (MoE) at MXFP4 needs ~12.2 GB (weights 11.3 GB + KV 384 MB + overhead 577 MB @ 8K ctx) of your 45.0 GB usable (of 64.0 GB unified memory) — plenty of headroom. Expect ~40–70 tok/s (very fast).
context @ MXFP4: comfortable to 128K
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✓ MXFP412.2 GB~40–70 tok/s (very fast)
$runlocal install gpt-oss:20b
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gpt-oss: Runs comfortably
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Same model, other machines: Apple M1 · Apple M1 Pro · Apple M2 · Apple M3 Pro · Apple M2 Pro · Apple M4 Pro

Also runs on a Apple M2 Max: DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen3 · Qwen2.5 · Llama 3.1 · Llama 3.3

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These share gpt-oss's KV-cache geometry — they size memory the same way, so here's how they fit on a Apple M2 Max · 64GB too:

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Llama 3.2 8kv/64hd ✅ Runs comfortably

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