Can the RTX 3090 run gpt-oss-20b?
Yes. gpt-oss-20b fits the RTX 3090's 24 GB at Q4_K_M (about 13.8 GB needed), running at an estimated 182 tok/s. There's room for up to Q5_K_M if you want higher quality.
Every quantization
gpt-oss-20b (21.5B, 3.6B active) on 24 GB
| Quant | Weights | Needs | Fit | Est. speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4_K_M | 12 GB | 13.8 GB | Fits easily | ~182 tok/s |
| Q5_K_M | 15 GB | 16.8 GB | Fits | ~145 tok/s |
| Q8_0 | 23 GB | 24.8 GB | Too big | - |
| FP16 | 43 GB | 44.8 GB | Too big | - |
Estimates. Needs = weights + 1.8 GB for KV cache and runtime at modest context. Speed is single-stream decode scaled from the RTX 3090's 936 GB/s bandwidth (XiongjieDai/GPU-Benchmarks-on-LLM-Inference). Long contexts need more memory and run slower.
Run it
Copy, paste, go
llama-server -hf unsloth/gpt-oss-20b-GGUF -ngl 99Ollama pulls a Q4 build by default. Pick a larger quant only if the table above says it fits. Full gpt-oss-20b details →
Compare
Same model, other hardware - and other models on this card
gpt-oss-20b on other hardware
- RTX 5090~341 tok/s
- RTX 5090 D~341 tok/s
- RTX 6000D~299 tok/s
- RTX 4090~208 tok/s
- Radeon RX 7900 XTX~183 tok/s
- RTX 5080~183 tok/s
- RTX 5080 Mobile~171 tok/s
- MacBook Pro 16" M4 Max~104 tok/s
Also runs on the RTX 3090
- GLM-4.7-Flash~211 tok/s
- Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507~206 tok/s
- Qwen3.6 27B~34 tok/s
- Qwen3.8 27B~34 tok/s
- Gemma 4 26B A4B~161 tok/s
- Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct~61 tok/s
- Qwen3 14B~68 tok/s
- Phi-4~64 tok/s
Frequently asked
Quick answers
Can the NVIDIA RTX 3090 run gpt-oss-20b?
Yes. gpt-oss-20b fits the RTX 3090's 24 GB at Q4_K_M (about 13.8 GB needed), running at an estimated 182 tok/s. There's room for up to Q5_K_M if you want higher quality.
How much VRAM does gpt-oss-20b need?
About 12 GB of weights at Q4_K_M, 23 GB at Q8_0 and 43 GB at FP16. Add roughly 1.8 GB for the KV cache and runtime at modest context lengths.
How fast is gpt-oss-20b on the RTX 3090?
Roughly 182 tokens per second at Q4_K_M (single user, llama.cpp-style decode). This is an estimate from the RTX 3090's 936 GB/s memory bandwidth; as a mixture-of-experts model only about 3.6B parameters are read per token, which is why it is faster than its size suggests.