gpt-oss-120b on Framework Desktop (Ryzen AI Max+ 395, 128 GB)

116.829B (5.1B active) on 128 GB at 256 GB/s. Hardware details · Model details

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Yes. gpt-oss-120b fits on Framework Desktop (Ryzen AI Max+ 395, 128 GB) at the recommended MXFP4 configuration, requiring approximately 66.5 GB at 8K context. Practical context capacity is 128K. Measured evidence: 43.00 t/s median across 2 comparable runs at MXFP4 and 4K context. Aggregated
CompatibilityComfortable
Calculated fit
Yes
Calculated Uses under 80% of usable memory. Room for a long context and other work.
Recommended quantization
MXFP4
Calculated gguf
Memory required
66.5 GB
Calculated of 105.0 GB usable — 63%
Max practical context
128K
Calculated model supports 128K
Observed resident fit: MXFP4 with eng_lm_studio at 4K context. This is measured evidence for those exact artifacts and settings; it does not change the standard memory calculation above.

Memory budget at 8K context

Model weights ⓘ
63.0 GB Calculated
KV cache ⓘ
0.6 GB Calculated
Runtime overhead ⓘ
2.9 GB Estimated
Total required
66.5 GB Calculated
Headroom ⓘ
38.5 GB Calculated
Highest-precision quantization that leaves headroom: uses 63% of usable memory at 8K context.
Unified LPDDR: the accelerator allocates from the same 128 GB pool as the OS. We assume 82% is available to the inference engine.
Mixture of experts: all 116.829B parameters must be resident in memory even though only ~5.1B are active per token. Memory follows total parameters; speed follows active parameters.
Performance

Measured performance · recommended MXFP4

Decode, prefill and TTFT below are measured for MXFP4, the recommended configuration.

Low2/10
Measured decode
30 t/s
Measured single measurement
Measured prefill
—
Measured not reported
TTFT at 8K
~27.9–58.2 s
Estimated MXFP4; calculated range
Hardware load reference
130 W
Measured machine-level load; not this model run

Measurement evidence

4 measured runs

Rows are kept separate when quantization, runtime, context, workload or execution settings differ.

QuantEngineDecode modeContextRunsMedian decodeMedian prefillLatestSources
MXFP4llama.cppstandard4K243.00 t/s—2 Apr 2026akehir.com, datahardware.ai
MXFP4llama.cppstandard4K134.00 t/s—11 May 2026runaihome.com
MXFP4LM Studiostandard4K130.00 t/s—10 Feb 2026mindstudio.ai
How the estimate is calculated
  1. Decode: reading 5.1B active parameters at 4.25 bits/weight takes 21.94 ms at 256 GB/s x 48% achieved efficiency.
  2. MoE routing penalty of 15% applied: expert gathers are less bandwidth-efficient than a dense sweep.
  3. Prefill: 59 TFLOPS (FP16) x 18% assumed model-FLOPs utilisation, divided by 2 x 24.4B parameters per token.
  4. Prefill uses 24.4B effective parameters, not the 5.1B active in decode: a batch of hundreds of tokens routes across most of the expert pool.

  • MoE decode depends on how well the engine batches expert gathers; real results vary more than for dense models.
  • Prefill throughput is highly engine-dependent. Flash attention, batch size and quantized KV all move this number substantially, and for sparse mixture-of-experts models it is the least reliable figure we produce.
  • This is a calculated estimate, not a measurement. It assumes a single request, a short prompt, no speculative decoding and a warm model already resident in memory.

Estimator version estimator_v1. Stored with every estimated row so old estimates can be regenerated when the model improves.

Why this is rated "Low" confidence
  • Community-reported benchmark: +2
  • 1 measurement: +0
  • Single measurement — agreement cannot be assessed: +0
  • Incomplete run metadata: +0

Score 2/10. Aggregated with the median, not the mean, so one outlier cannot move the headline figure.

This model at other quantizations on this machine
QuantizationResidentDiskTotal neededUtilisationFitMax context
MXFP4recommended63.0 GB63.0 GB66.5 GB63%ComfortableResident run observed128K
BF16217.6 GB217.6 GB225.7 GB215%Does not fit0
Cost of running gpt-oss-120b on this machineUnited States (federal) · C corporation · 8h/day
Monthly economic cost
$28
Calculated after tax
Codex/Claude Code
$100/mo
≈ $100/mo · local is $72 less
Net cash at purchase
$2,161
Calculated VAT not reclaimable
Total over 5 years
$1,673
Calculated after tax, after resale
Cost per USD/1M tokens
$7.34
Calculated 3.8M tokens/month

The $100 comparison uses the Codex Pro 5x / Claude Max 5x plans. A fixed planning conversion is used for USD. This compares monthly spend only: subscriptions have usage limits, local hardware has different capabilities and constraints, and taxes or regional pricing may change the charged amount. Prices checked 7 September 2026.

Purchase-price input: $2,161 in United States (federal), tax/VAT excluded · estimated · Framework (converted catalogue estimate). This is the localized purchase input; the after-tax economic cost is calculated separately below.

Monthly breakdown

Depreciation
1,837 over 5 years, straight-line to a 324 residual
$30.62
Electricity
6.3 kWh/month at 0.140/kWh
$0.88
Cost of capital
4.0%/yr on 1,243 average capital employed
$4.14
Monthly cost before tax$35.63
Electricity tax shield
Running costs are deductible business expenses
−$0.18
First-year expensing
§179 (100.0%)
−$7.56
Monthly economic cost after tax$27.89

Three different numbers, deliberately

Cash cost
$2,161
Money that leaves the bank account on day one, net of reclaimable VAT.
Accounting depreciation
$30.62/month
$1,837 written down over 5 years to a $324 residual.
After-tax economic cost
$27.89/month
Depreciation plus running costs plus cost of capital, less the tax those deductions save. This is the figure to compare between machines.
Assumptions and sources (verified 2026-09-07)
VAT rate
0% Official spec
VAT recoverable
0% Official spec
Federal C-corporation estimate at the flat 21% rate. Pass-through entities should use the sole-proprietor estimate as a rougher proxy.
Effective deduction rate
21.00% Calculated
Headline marginal rate 21.00%.
Depreciation
5 years, straight-line Assumption
Residual value
$324 (15%) Assumption
Two GPU generations later, the card is worth a fraction of its list price.
Electricity
$0.140/kWh Assumption
Average power draw
36 W Calculated
Load 130 W for 20% of powered hours, idle 12 W for the rest — a machine that is on is not generating tokens the whole time.
Investment allowances
§179 100.0% Official spec
Worth $454 in total — first-year expensing that replaces later tax depreciation.
Cost of capital
$4.14/month Assumption
Assumes the machine generates tokens 20% of its 176 powered hours per month. Cost per token scales inversely with this number — halve the utilisation and the cost per token doubles.
Federal planning estimate only, not tax advice. State and local income tax, sales/use tax and incentives are excluded. It assumes 100% business use, a Section 179 election, enough business income to use it, and that the full annual limit remains available.
Efficiency metrics
Decode per $1,000 spent
13.9 t/s
Calculated purchase price only
Decode per $100/month
107.6 t/s
Calculated after-tax ownership cost
Tokens per joule
0.84
Calculated same as tokens/s per watt
USD per 1M output tokens
$7.34
Calculated at 20% utilisation
Local versus hosted APIs
Hosted modelUSD/1M outputBreak-evenAPI at your volumeVerdictComparison type
Qwen3.8 Flash
Alibaba Cloud
$0.4218.1M/mo$6API cheaperDifferent model
DeepSeek-V4.1 Flash
DeepSeek
$0.6015.5M/mo$7API cheaperDifferent model
DeepSeek-V4 Pro
DeepSeek
$1.983.8M/mo$28About equalDifferent model
DeepSeek V4 Pro (Together)
Together AI
$4.401.3M/mo$81Local cheaperDifferent model
GLM-5.3
Z.ai
$4.401.8M/mo$59Local cheaperDifferent model
Claude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic
$5.002.1M/mo$49Local cheaperDifferent model
Different-model comparison: the hosted model is not the model you would run locally. Treat this as a workload-quality trade-off, not a direct economic equivalence — the frontier model may complete a task in fewer tokens, or complete tasks the local model cannot. Break-even is the monthly output volume at which API spend equals the $28/month economic cost of owning this machine, assuming 8 input tokens per output token. Hosted prices are published in USD. This table is the canonical US default.