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Can I run gpt-oss 20B (MoE) in Australia?

Yes. The cheapest hardware we track that holds gpt-oss 20B (MoE) at MXFP4 with an 8k context is the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB at A$699 (Mwave, checked 20 Oct 2026, 7:38 am AEST). Expect roughly 134 tokens/sec (estimate).

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21Btotal parameters · 3.6B active (MoE)
24layers (12 full-attention, 12 sliding-window)
0.20 GBKV cache @ 8k · 8 KV heads × 64 dim
Model card ↗config.json · source of counts

GGUF builds: unsloth · bartowski · ggml-org · lmstudio-community

Memory needed by quantisation (8k context)

QuantWeightsTotal neededCheapest hardware that fits
MXFP4
11.2 GB
12.4 GB
Q8_0
22.3 GB
23.5 GB

All hardware that fits at MXFP4

HardwareNeeds / usableEst. tok/sPriceRetailer link
12.4 / 15.5 GB fits
134 estimate
A$699
Mwave
checked 20 Oct 2026, 7:38 am AEST
12.4 / 15.5 GB fits
180 estimate
A$1,099
Scorptec
checked 20 Oct 2026, 7:39 am AEST
12.4 / 15.5 GB fits
237 estimate
A$1,099
Mwave
checked 20 Oct 2026, 7:38 am AEST
12.4 / 15.5 GB fits
272 estimate
A$1,169
Mwave
checked 20 Oct 2026, 7:38 am AEST
12.4 / 15.5 GB fits
351 estimate
A$1,699
Scorptec
checked 20 Oct 2026, 7:40 am AEST
12.4 / 15.5 GB fits
361 estimate
A$2,299
Scorptec
checked 20 Oct 2026, 7:40 am AEST
12.4 / 31.5 GB fits
289 estimate
A$2,299
Mwave
checked 20 Oct 2026, 7:38 am AEST
12.4 / 18.0 GB fits
134 estimate
A$2,699
Apple AU
checked 20 Oct 2026, 7:44 am AEST
12.4 / 18.0 GB fits
131 estimate
A$2,999
Apple AU
checked 20 Oct 2026, 7:44 am AEST
12.4 / 23.5 GB fits
339 estimate
A$3,599
Scorptec · not in stock online
checked 20 Oct 2026, 7:41 am AEST
12.4 / 48.0 GB fits
99 estimate
A$3,915
Minisforum AU · not in stock online
checked 20 Oct 2026, 7:44 am AEST
12.4 / 27.0 GB fits
178 estimate
A$4,299
Apple AU
checked 20 Oct 2026, 7:44 am AEST
12.4 / 96.0 GB fits
99 estimate
A$5,719
Minisforum AU
checked 20 Oct 2026, 7:44 am AEST
12.4 / 48.0 GB fits
99 estimate
A$5,894
Mwave
checked 20 Oct 2026, 7:44 am AEST
12.4 / 48.0 GB fits
117 estimate
A$7,149
Microsoft Store AU · stale
checked 19 Oct 2026, 8:18 pm AEST
12.4 / 96.0 GB fits
99 estimate
A$8,999
Mwave · not in stock online
checked 20 Oct 2026, 7:44 am AEST
12.4 / 96.0 GB fits
113 estimate
A$8,999
Mwave
checked 20 Oct 2026, 7:44 am AEST
12.4 / 72.0 GB fits
465 estimate
A$9,499
Apple AU
checked 20 Oct 2026, 7:44 am AEST
12.4 / 96.0 GB fits
117 estimate
A$9,649
Microsoft Store AU · stale
checked 19 Oct 2026, 8:18 pm AEST
12.4 / 31.5 GB fits
575 estimate
A$10,999
Scorptec
checked 20 Oct 2026, 7:41 am AEST
12.4 / 192.0 GB fits
355 estimate
A$11,449
Apple AU
checked 20 Oct 2026, 7:44 am AEST
12.4 / 95.5 GB fits
544 estimate
A$27,599
Scorptec
checked 20 Oct 2026, 7:42 am AEST
12.4 / 15.5 GB fits
112 estimate
price unavailable
12.4 / 23.5 GB fits
314 estimate
price unavailable
12.4 / 23.5 GB fits
369 estimate
price unavailable
12.4 / 23.5 GB fits
362 estimate
price unavailable
12.4 / 36.0 GB fits
238 estimate
price unavailable
12.4 / 48.0 GB fits
99 estimate
price unavailable
12.4 / 96.0 GB fits
99 estimate
price unavailable

The tok/s figures are bandwidth-based estimates for this model. Where a device has a measured benchmark, the estimate is calibrated to that run. They are not measurements. Methodology.

Graphics card + system RAM (MoE experts in RAM)

Mixture-of-experts models only read a few experts per token, so llama.cpp can keep the expert weights in system RAM and everything else on the GPU (e.g. --n-cpu-moe / -ot exps=CPU). That lets a 12–32GB card run a much bigger model. All figures below are estimates (MXFP4, 8k context, dual-channel DDR5-5600). How we estimate.

Graphics cardCard priceGPU only+ 32GB RAM+ 64GB RAM+ 128GB RAM
A$419
no
fits
2 GB in RAM · ~92 tok/s
fits
2 GB in RAM · ~92 tok/s
fits
2 GB in RAM · ~92 tok/s
A$539
no
fits
2 GB in RAM · ~95 tok/s
fits
2 GB in RAM · ~95 tok/s
fits
2 GB in RAM · ~95 tok/s
A$699
fits
~134 tok/s
fits in VRAM
fits in VRAM
fits in VRAM
A$1,099
fits
~180 tok/s
fits in VRAM
fits in VRAM
fits in VRAM
A$1,099
fits
~237 tok/s
fits in VRAM
fits in VRAM
fits in VRAM
A$1,169
fits
~272 tok/s
fits in VRAM
fits in VRAM
fits in VRAM
A$1,249
no
fits
2 GB in RAM · ~123 tok/s
fits
2 GB in RAM · ~123 tok/s
fits
2 GB in RAM · ~123 tok/s
A$1,699
fits
~351 tok/s
fits in VRAM
fits in VRAM
fits in VRAM
A$2,299
fits
~361 tok/s
fits in VRAM
fits in VRAM
fits in VRAM
A$2,299
fits
~289 tok/s
fits in VRAM
fits in VRAM
fits in VRAM
A$3,599
fits
~339 tok/s
fits in VRAM
fits in VRAM
fits in VRAM
A$10,999
fits
~575 tok/s
fits in VRAM
fits in VRAM
fits in VRAM
A$27,599
fits
~544 tok/s
fits in VRAM
fits in VRAM
fits in VRAM
n/a
fits
~112 tok/s
fits in VRAM
fits in VRAM
fits in VRAM
n/a
fits
~314 tok/s
fits in VRAM
fits in VRAM
fits in VRAM
n/a
fits
~369 tok/s
fits in VRAM
fits in VRAM
fits in VRAM
n/a
fits
~362 tok/s
fits in VRAM
fits in VRAM
fits in VRAM

DDR5 kit prices today: 32GB: A$610 (Mwave, checked 20 Oct 2026, 7:44 am AEST) · 64GB: A$1,499 (Mwave, checked 20 Oct 2026, 7:44 am AEST) · 128GB: A$2,511 (Mwave, not in stock online, checked 20 Oct 2026, 7:44 am AEST). Card + kit only; the rest of the PC isn't included. RAM-offload speeds are estimates and can be optimistic, so check community results below.

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