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Can a Mac Studio M5 Max (32c GPU) 36GB run gpt-oss 20B (MoE, MXFP4)?

Yes. gpt-oss 20B (MoE, MXFP4) fits in fast memory on Mac Studio M5 Max (32c GPU) 36GB at MXFP4 (15.1 GB needed, 27.0 GB usable), about 76 tok/s (estimate).

Hardware: Mac Studio M5 Max (32c GPU) 36GB · Model: gpt-oss 20B (MoE, MXFP4)

Mac Studio M5 Max (32c GPU) 36GB has 36 GB of unified memory and 460 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The checker leaves macOS a share of unified memory, so Ollama can use 27.0 GB. gpt-oss 20B (MoE, MXFP4) (20.9B, 3.6B active, OpenAI) at MXFP4 is a 14 GB download and needs 15.1 GB with headroom for about 8k tokens.

Best quantMXFP4
Download size14 GB
Memory needed15.1 GB
Usable fast memory27.0 GB
Fitfits in fast memory
Estimated speed~76 tok/s (estimate)
Commandollama run gpt-oss:20b
Open Mac Studio M5 Max (32c GPU) 36GB in the checker

Estimates, not benchmarks. Model sizes are ollama.com download sizes; memory needed adds headroom for ~8k tokens of context; speeds are rough figures from memory bandwidth. Data updated 2026-10-23.

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