gpt-oss on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 · 12GB VRAM

⚠️ Partial GPU offload — 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 10.8 GB usable VRAM — some layers spill to system RAM. Expect ~10–17 tok/s (usable).
context @ MXFP4: runs to its full 128K
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~ MXFP412.2 GB~10–17 tok/s (usable)
$runlocal install gpt-oss:20b
⚠ NVIDIA support is best-effort in v0.1 — verify before relying on it.
runlocal verdict card
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gpt-oss: Partial GPU offload
for your own README — links back here

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

Also runs on a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060: Qwen3 · DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen2.5 · Llama 3.1 · Gemma 4

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