gpt-oss-safeguard 120B on Raspberry Pi 5 (16 GB)

Can the Raspberry Pi 5 (16 GB) run gpt-oss-safeguard 120B?

No, it doesn’t fit

No. gpt-oss-safeguard 120B needs about 68.3 GB even at MXFP4; the Raspberry Pi 5 (16 GB) has 13.6 GB usable.

Download gpt-oss-safeguard 120B

Quickest · Ollama

One command downloads a ready-to-run version and starts a chat.

Get Ollama at ollama.com/download (opens in a new tab) · model page (opens in a new tab)

ollama run gpt-oss-safeguard:120b

Quantized files · GGUF

Works in LM Studio, llama.cpp, Jan and Ollama. No sign-in needed.

huggingface.co/unsloth/gpt-oss-safeguard-120b-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/unsloth/gpt-oss-safeguard-120b-GGUF

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from OpenAI, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-120b (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Links checked 1 day ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at MXFP4, whatever it runs on. Match score 10/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at MXFP4, from its editorial quality tier scaled by the quantization or precision. It’s the same on any hardware that runs this variant. Scale: A+ 85+ · A 70+ · B 55+ · C 40+ · D under 40.
Runs Won't run: How well it runs on the Raspberry Pi 5 (16 GB): speed, capped by how well it fits in memory. Runs great: 30+ tokens/s (or near the image, video or decision speed target) · Runs well: 10+ tokens/s · Slow: 3+ tokens/s · Very slow: under 3 · Won’t run: doesn’t fit even with offload. A tight fit or RAM offload caps it at Runs well; heavy offload caps it at Slow.

Match score

To order lists, each result also gets a match score out of 100 from four parts. It favors the most capable model that still runs well.

PrecisionEditorial precision tier from the model’s published benchmarks, scaled by the quantization or precision used.	10.8 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when the model fits in the share of unified memory the GPU can use; fewer when it goes past that limit.	0.0 / 25
SpeedTime for one decision against a 100 ms target: reading the input plus any tokens the model writes.	0.0 / 15
ClarityHow easy the answer is to use in code: a probability or score earns the most, written feedback before a score the least.	0.0 / 15
Match score	10.8 / 100

The match score orders results; it is not shown as a grade. Quality and Runs are the two ratings in the tables.

It doesn’t fit, so only a reduced share of the quality points counts and fit, speed and memory use score zero.

Every quantization on the Raspberry Pi 5 (16 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`MXFP4`	68.3 GB	13.6 GB	—	Won't run	80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at MXFP4, whatever it runs on. Match score 10/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	235 GB	13.6 GB	—	Won't run	80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 10/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Times are for one request with a 512-token input and about 160 tokens written. Batching servers process many requests at once.

Hardware that can run it

80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at MXFP4, whatever it runs on. Match score 75/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell MXFP4 · 918 ms · Slow
80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at MXFP4, whatever it runs on. Match score 76/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA B200 MXFP4 · 643 ms · Slow
80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at MXFP4, whatever it runs on. Match score 76/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Instinct MI350X MXFP4 · 663 ms · Slow
80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at MXFP4, whatever it runs on. Match score 76/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip MXFP4 · 675 ms · Slow
80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at MXFP4, whatever it runs on. Match score 76/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Instinct MI325X MXFP4 · 688 ms · Slow
80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at MXFP4, whatever it runs on. Match score 76/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA H200 141GB SXM MXFP4 · 699 ms · Slow

Models that do run on the Raspberry Pi 5 (16 GB)

78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 85/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. OpenAI Privacy Filter Q8_0 · 159 ms
90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 81/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3 Reranker 4B Q8_0 · 23.3 s
86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 81/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Jina Reranker v3.5 Q8_0 · 3.5 s
90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 81/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3 Reranker 8B Q8_0 · 47.5 s
90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 80/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Skywork Reward V2 Llama 3.1 8B Q8_0 · 92.8 s

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.