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Radeon RX 7900 XTX · 24GB GDDR6

Can the Radeon RX 7900 XTX run gpt-oss-120b?

Does not fit at Q4_K_M.

gpt-oss-120b is 117B parameters (MoE; all experts resident). At Q4_K_M the weights are about 65.4 GiB; with the 1.5 GiB runtime reserve that is 66.9 GiB against the card's 24GB, about 42.9 GiB more than the card has.

All three quants

24GB card
QuantWeightsWith reserveVerdictHeadroom
Q4_K_Mthe everyday quant65.4 GiB66.9 GiBDoes not fitshort 42.9 GiB
Q8_0near-lossless115.5 GiB117.0 GiBDoes not fitshort 93.0 GiB
FP16full weights217.9 GiB219.4 GiBDoes not fitshort 195.4 GiB

Verdict rules: fits comfortably when weights plus reserve sit within 85% of VRAM; tight when they fit with little left for context; CPU offload when they exceed VRAM by up to 2x (runs, slowly, with layers in system RAM); no beyond that. The KV cache per token depends on the model's architecture and is not modelled here.

Not this card. These fit it comfortably at Q4.

Nothing in the consumer catalog fits gpt-oss-120b at Q4 on a single card; this is multi-GPU or datacenter territory, or a job for hosted inference (see PicksByModel for per-token pricing).

What the Radeon RX 7900 XTX does run well → · gpt-oss-120b on every card →

About the model

gpt-oss-120b by OpenAI: 131,072-token native context, text, released 2025 under the Apache-2.0. Model card → · Hosted pricing on PicksByModel →

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