gpt-oss-120b-abliterated
wangzhang/gpt-oss-120b-abliteratedgpt-oss-120b-abliterated at Q4_K_M is exactly 87,850,988,864 bytes (81.82 GiB / 87.85 GB) — an effective 6.016 bits per weight, not the nominal 4. Its KV cache at 32K is 1.15 GiB, not the 2.25 GiB a flat formula predicts.
Shipped quantizations
| Quant | Size● | Exact bytes● | Effective bpw● | Tensors● | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I1-IQ1_S | 61.54 GiB | 66,080,447,040 | 4.525 | — | mradermacher |
| I1-IQ2_XXS | 61.54 GiB | 66,080,447,040 | 4.525 | — | mradermacher |
| I1-IQ1_M | 61.54 GiB | 66,080,447,040 | 4.525 | — | mradermacher |
| I1-IQ2_XS | 61.55 GiB | 66,093,718,080 | 4.526 | — | mradermacher |
| Q3_K_S | 61.60 GiB | 66,146,801,984 | 4.529 | — | mradermacher |
| I1-Q3_K_S | 61.60 GiB | 66,146,802,240 | 4.529 | — | mradermacher |
| Q2_K | 61.61 GiB | 66,153,437,504 | 4.530 | — | mradermacher |
| I1-IQ3_S | 61.61 GiB | 66,153,437,760 | 4.530 | — | mradermacher |
| I1-IQ3_XS | 61.61 GiB | 66,153,437,760 | 4.530 | — | mradermacher |
| I1-IQ2_M | 61.61 GiB | 66,153,437,760 | 4.530 | — | mradermacher |
| I1-IQ3_XXS | 61.61 GiB | 66,153,437,760 | 4.530 | — | mradermacher |
| I1-IQ2_S | 61.61 GiB | 66,153,437,760 | 4.530 | — | mradermacher |
| I1-Q2_K | 61.61 GiB | 66,153,437,760 | 4.530 | — | mradermacher |
| I1-IQ4_XS | 61.65 GiB | 66,199,886,400 | 4.533 | — | mradermacher |
| I1-Q4_0 | 61.90 GiB | 66,468,624,960 | 4.551 | — | mradermacher |
| I1-Q2_K_S | 62.06 GiB | 66,641,148,480 | 4.563 | — | mradermacher |
| I1-IQ3_M | 62.16 GiB | 66,740,681,280 | 4.570 | — | mradermacher |
| IQ4_XS | 62.40 GiB | 66,996,148,544 | 4.588 | — | mradermacher |
| Q3_K_M | 66.24 GiB | 71,120,308,544 | 4.870 | — | mradermacher |
| I1-Q3_K_M | 66.24 GiB | 71,120,308,800 | 4.870 | — | mradermacher |
| Q3_K_L | 68.39 GiB | 73,432,602,944 | 5.028 | — | mradermacher |
| I1-Q3_K_L | 68.39 GiB | 73,432,603,200 | 5.028 | — | mradermacher |
| I1-Q4_1 | 68.42 GiB | 73,465,481,280 | 5.031 | — | mradermacher |
| Q4_K_S | 75.38 GiB | 80,940,463,424 | 5.543 | — | mradermacher |
| I1-Q4_K_S | 75.38 GiB | 80,940,463,680 | 5.543 | — | mradermacher |
| Q4_K_M | 81.82 GiB | 87,850,988,864 | 6.016 | — | mradermacher |
| I1-Q4_K_M | 81.82 GiB | 87,850,989,120 | 6.016 | — | mradermacher |
| Q5_K_S | 81.92 GiB | 87,963,493,184 | 6.023 | — | mradermacher |
| I1-Q5_K_S | 81.92 GiB | 87,963,493,440 | 6.023 | — | mradermacher |
| Q5_K_M | 87.49 GiB | 93,943,755,584 | 6.433 | — | mradermacher |
| I1-Q5_K_M | 87.49 GiB | 93,943,755,840 | 6.433 | — | mradermacher |
| Q6_K | 115.67 GiB | 124,198,570,304 | 8.505 | — | mradermacher |
| I1-Q6_K | 115.67 GiB | 124,198,570,560 | 8.505 | — | mradermacher |
| Q8_0 | 115.76 GiB | 124,301,420,864 | 8.512 | — | mradermacher |
KV cache by context
| Context | KV cache (f16)● | Flat formula | Overstated by | Full / windowed / recurrent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | 0.17 GiB | 0.28 GiB | 1.68× | 18 / 18 / 0 |
| 8,192 | 0.31 GiB | 0.56 GiB | 1.83× | 18 / 18 / 0 |
| 16,384 | 0.59 GiB | 1.13 GiB | 1.91× | 18 / 18 / 0 |
| 32,768 | 1.15 GiB | 2.25 GiB | 1.95× | 18 / 18 / 0 |
| 65,536 | 2.28 GiB | 4.50 GiB | 1.98× | 18 / 18 / 0 |
| 131,072 | 4.53 GiB | 9.00 GiB | 1.99× | 18 / 18 / 0 |
18 of 36 layers cache only a 128-token window rather than the full context, on a period of . Figures assume the default configuration; --swa-full disables the saving entirely.
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Will it run on your card?
Why other calculators give a different number
A parameters × bits ÷ 8 estimate puts Q4_K_M at roughly 61.20 GiB. The real file is 81.82 GiB, because a quantization is a mixture and some tensors are always kept at higher precision. The larger discrepancy is the cache: a flat formula gives 2.25 GiB at 32K context where the real figure is 1.15 GiB, because most of this model's layers cache a fixed window rather than the whole context.
Architecture
Questions people ask
- How much VRAM does gpt-oss-120b-abliterated need?
- Q4_K_M is exactly 87,850,988,864 bytes (81.82 GiB) in weights. Add the KV cache, which depends on your context length, plus roughly half a gigabyte of runtime overhead.
- How large is gpt-oss-120b-abliterated's KV cache?
- 1.15 GiB at 32K context with an f16 cache, computed per layer. Quantizing the cache to q8_0 roughly halves it, which is often the difference between a context length fitting and not.
- Is gpt-oss-120b-abliterated a mixture-of-experts model?
- Yes — 128 experts, 4 routed per token. Every expert must be resident, but only the routed ones are read per token, which is why its memory requirement and its speed behave very differently.
- Which quantization of gpt-oss-120b-abliterated should I use?
- Q4_K_M is the usual default. Pick the largest quantization that fits your card at the context you actually need — the table above gives exact sizes for every one published.