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Cutting-Edge Performance on Consumer Hardware
The significance of these models transcends their open-source nature; they also deliver performance that rivals the most advanced proprietary systems. The GPT-OSS 120B, with 120 billion parameters, demonstrates near parity with OpenAI's GPT-4 Mini on core reasoning benchmarks while maintaining efficiency suitable for a single high-grade GPU with 80GB RAM. Even more impressive is the GPT-OSS 20B, a 20-billion-parameter model that achieves results akin to GPT-3 Mini, running smoothly on a modest 16GB of memory—your typical MacBook or edge device.