Can I Run GPT-OSS on Apple M2 Max?

Written by Jakub Rusinowski · Last updated August 15, 2026

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~25.5 GB of headroom running GPT-oss 120B at Q4_K_M (70.518 GB, ~54 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 128K context.

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Apple Mac Studio M2 Max
96 GB VRAM · 40 W board power
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Apple M2 Max Specs

VRAM96 GB unified memory
Memory Bandwidth400 GB/s

GPT-oss 120B on the Apple M2 Max: VRAM by quantization

QuantVRAM neededFits 96 GB?Max context
F16234.7 GB✗ No
Q8_0125.2 GB✗ No
Q6_K96.9 GB✗ No
Q5_K_M83.9 GB✓ Yes128K
Q4_K_M71.6 GB✓ Yes128K
Q3_K_M50.9 GB✓ Yes128K
Q2_K39.5 GB✓ Yes128K

VRAM needed assumes a 4K-token context with an f16 KV cache; “Max context” is the largest window that still fits in 96 GB of unified memory. Figures are estimates from parameter count, quantization and memory bandwidth — the analyzer lets you tune KV-cache quant and context.

GPT-OSS Sizes That Fit the Apple M2 Max

GPT-oss 120BQ4_K_M · 70.518 GB · ~54 tok/s (est.)
GPT-OSS 20BMXFP4 · 11.103124999999999 GB · ~79 tok/s (est.)
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FAQ

GPT-OSS on the Apple M2 Max — does it fit?

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~25.5 GB of headroom running GPT-oss 120B at Q4_K_M (70.518 GB, ~54 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 128K context.

Which GPT-OSS variant fits best on the Apple M2 Max?

GPT-oss 120B at Q4_K_M quantization (70.518 GB), estimated ~54 tokens/sec, up to 128K context.

Every GPT-OSS size on the Apple M2 Max

SizeVRAMVerdictSpeed
GPT-oss 120B70.5 GBRuns~54 tok/s
GPT-OSS 20B11.1 GBRuns~79 tok/s

GPT-OSS on Other GPUs

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