majentik/gpt-oss-120b-TurboQuant-MLX-2bit

GPT-OSS-120B - TurboQuant MLX 2-bit

2-bit weight-quantized MLX version of openai/gpt-oss-120b with TurboQuant KV-cache quantization. Optimized for Apple Silicon inference via the MLX framework. The smallest variant, enabling GPT-OSS-120B to fit on more accessible Mac hardware; expect some quality degradation vs higher-bit variants. GPT-OSS-120B is OpenAI's flagship open-weights Mixture-of-Experts model (Apache 2.0), approaching o4-mini quality for reasoning tasks.

Approximate model size: ~30 GB

Model Specifications

Property	Value
Base Model	openai/gpt-oss-120b
Parameters	120 billion (MoE)
Architecture	Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Transformer
License	Apache 2.0 (commercial use OK)
Weight Quantization	2-bit (~30 GB)
KV-Cache Quantization	TurboQuant
Framework	MLX (Apple Silicon)

Quickstart

from mlx_lm import load, generate
from turboquant import TurboQuantCache

model, tokenizer = load("majentik/gpt-oss-120b-TurboQuant-MLX-2bit")

prompt = "Explain the theory of relativity."
response = generate(model, tokenizer, prompt=prompt, max_tokens=512)
print(response)

What is TurboQuant?

TurboQuant (arXiv: 2504.19874) compresses the KV cache used during autoregressive generation. Combined with aggressive 2-bit weight quantization in MLX, this produces the smallest possible footprint for GPT-OSS-120B, making the flagship open model accessible on more modest Apple Silicon hardware.

KV-Cache Quantization Comparison

Method	Prefill Speed	Decode Speed	Memory Savings	Reference
TurboQuant	1x (baseline)	1x (baseline)	High	arXiv: 2504.19874
RotorQuant	5.3x faster	28% faster	High	GitHub

Memory Estimates (GPT-OSS-120B)

Precision	Approximate Size	MLX Variant
BF16 (original)	~240 GB	--
8-bit quantized	~120 GB	TurboQuant-MLX-8bit
4-bit quantized	~65 GB	TurboQuant-MLX-4bit
2-bit quantized	~30 GB	This model

Hardware Requirements

This model requires approximately 30 GB of unified memory. Recommended hardware:

• Apple M1 Max (32 GB+)
• Apple M2 Max (32 GB+)
• Apple M3 Max (36 GB+)
• Apple M4 Max (36 GB+)
• Any Apple Silicon Mac with 36 GB+ unified memory

See Also

• openai/gpt-oss-120b -- Base model
• majentik/gpt-oss-120b-TurboQuant -- TurboQuant KV-cache only (transformers)
• majentik/gpt-oss-120b-TurboQuant-MLX-8bit -- MLX 8-bit variant
• majentik/gpt-oss-120b-TurboQuant-MLX-4bit -- MLX 4-bit variant
• majentik/gpt-oss-120b-RotorQuant-MLX-2bit -- RotorQuant MLX 2-bit variant
• TurboQuant Paper (arXiv: 2504.19874)
• MLX Framework