GPT-oss 120B — VRAM Requirements

Autor: Jakub Rusinowski · Ostatnia aktualizacja: 21 lipca 2026

How much GPU VRAM you need to run GPT-oss 120B GPT-oss 120B by OpenAI locally, a 120B-parameter model. Figures are quantized weights + KV cache + framework overhead from a memory-bandwidth roofline model.

GPT-oss 120B needs about 73 GB VRAM at Q4_K_M.

VRAM by Quantization

QuantBits/weightWeightsTotal VRAM
Q2_K2.6339.4 GB40.2 GB
Q3_K_M3.4151.2 GB52.0 GB
Q4_K_M4.8372.5 GB73.3 GB
Q5_K_M5.6785.0 GB85.8 GB
Q6_K6.5698.4 GB99.2 GB
Q8_08.50127.5 GB128.3 GB
F1616.00240.0 GB240.8 GB

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VRAM Requirements

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Estimates only — actual VRAM varies with context length, batch size, runtime and KV-cache settings.