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MXFP4

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Organization
OpenAI
Parameters
117B
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Model Overview

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Performance Comparison

Hardware Configurations

Compare performance across different hardware configurations. See each full report for detailed metrics.

Visual Analysis

Performance Charts

Per-User Throughput Range

Per-user generation speed across context lengths. The top edge of each band shows single-user performance; the bottom edge shows performance at maximum tested concurrency.

Time to First Token Range

Time until the first token is generated. The bottom edge of each band shows single-user TTFT; the top edge shows TTFT at maximum tested concurrency. Lower is better for responsive user experience.

Capacity Planning

Capacity by Use Case

Maximum concurrent requests while maintaining acceptable user experience. Thresholds vary by use case. See individual reports for details.

"+" indicates capacity exceeded tested concurrency range. "~" indicates estimated from available data.

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Benchmark Report

gpt-oss-120b

on 

1x RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell

January 30, 2026

Organization
OpenAI
Parameters
117B
Precision
MXFP4
vram
96GB
Engine
vLLM
REPORT
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overview

Executive Summary

Infrastructure decisions require real performance data. This report measures user-facing performance, showing how many concurrent users a configuration can support at a given context length before performance degrades.

This benchmark evaluates gpt-oss-120b (OpenAI, 117B parameters, Mixture-of-Experts) running in MXFP4 precision on 1x RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell (96GB VRAM).

Test parameters: Context lengths from 1K - 128K tokens. Concurrency from 1 - 4 requests. 1024 output tokens per request. No prompt caching. No speculative decoding. Full-precision KV cache.

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Key Findings

MetricResult
Peak System Throughput361.0 tok/s @ 4 concurrent requests, 1K context
TTFT Single Request63ms (1K context) → 32.3s (128K context)
Generation Speed Single Request181.1 tok/s (1K context) → 79.7 tok/s (128K context)
Chatbot Capacity5 concurrent requests @ 32K context
Throughput Scaling2.5× from 1 to 4 concurrent requests
Success Rate100.0% across 2.9K requests
Throughout this report, "concurrent requests" refers to simultaneous active requests. For applications with natural user pauses (chat interfaces, coding assistants), each request slot typically serves 4–5 active users.
Recommendations

Use Case Guidance

The table below maps this configuration's performance to common deployment scenarios. Capacity limits are where TTFT or generation speed falls below accepted thresholds for a comfortable user experience.

Use CaseTTFT ThresholdSpeed ThresholdNotesDetails
Code Completion2s e2eN/ASupports 12 concurrent requests within accepted thresholds.View details
Short-form Chatbot10s10 tok/sSupports ~59 concurrent requests within accepted thresholds.View details
General Chatbot8s15 tok/sSupports 5 concurrent requests within accepted thresholds.View details
Long Document Processing12s15 tok/sBest suited for single-user document processing. For higher throughput, consider a smaller model.View details
Automated Coding Assistant12s20 tok/sResponse times too slow for agentic workflows without caching; enable prompt caching or consider a smaller model.View details

The limits shown are conservative. Beyond these points, the system continues functioning with slower response times that may still be acceptable for your specific use case.

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Performance

System Throughput

Aggregate token generation across all concurrent requests. Measures output tokens only. Prompt tokens processed during prefill are excluded.

Average system throughput across 1K - 128K tokens context at 1 - 4 concurrent requests.

ConditionThroughput
Peak (1K context, 4 requests)361.0 tok/s
32K context, 4 requests139.5 tok/s
128K context, 4 requests19.8 tok/s

At peak throughput, this configuration produces approximately 1.3 million tokens per hour. This is relevant for batch workloads like document processing, synthetic data generation, or offline analysis. Higher concurrency or shorter contexts can increase this further.

User Experience

Per-User Generation Speed

Token generation rate experienced by each individual user. This is the speed at which text streams into their response, also referred to as "decode speed" or "decode throughput." As concurrency increases, per-user speed decreases since GPU resources are shared across requests.

Average per-user generation speed across 1K - 128K tokens context at 1 - 4 concurrent requests.

How Fast is This?

SpeedUser Experience
< 15 tok/sSlow; may be slower than reading speed
15–25 tok/sAcceptable; keeps pace with reading
25–50 tok/sFast; exceeds reading speed
> 50 tok/sVery fast; text appears nearly instantly

At 11.1 tok/s (the lowest measured point: 128K context, 4 concurrent requests), this configuration slows below fast reading speed in the most demanding scenarios. Single-user performance at 1K context reaches 181.1 tok/s.

Latency

Time to First Token

Time from request submission to first response token. The primary metric for perceived responsiveness. TTFT has two components:

  • Queue wait: Time waiting for GPU availability (increases with concurrency)
  • Prefill: Time to process input context (increases with context length)

At low concurrency, prefill dominates. Under load, queue wait becomes the larger factor. See Queue Wait Times and Prefill Speed in Technical Analysis.

Average TTFT across 1K - 128K tokens context at 1 - 4 concurrent requests.

How Responsive is This?

TTFTUser Experience
< 500msFeels instant
500ms–2sFeels responsive
2–5sNoticeable but still acceptable
5–10sFeels slow; generally acceptable at higher context lengths
> 10sCan be frustrating; users may retry or abandon
Important note about caching. These benchmarks use fresh context with no caching enabled, representing worst-case TTFT. In production with caching enabled, only new tokens require processing. For example, a 64K conversation where you add 1K of new context would have a TTFT similar to the 1K results above, not the 64K results. For most real-world use cases where context is built incrementally (chatbots, coding assistants, multi-turn agents), TTFT with caching enabled would be significantly faster than these results.
Capacity Planning

Capacity Analysis

How many concurrent requests can this configuration handle for different workloads? Each chart below shows performance metrics as concurrency increases at a specific context length. Dashed lines indicate quality thresholds, the point where user experience degrades below acceptable levels. The "capacity limit" is the tested or estimated point where the first threshold is reached.

Code Completion (1K Context)

Inline code suggestions in IDEs, like autocomplete. Responsiveness is critical. This test generates 128 output tokens per request (vs. 1024 elsewhere) to match typical autocomplete length. The key metric is end-to-end latency, not TTFT.

Threshold: End-to-end latency < 2,000ms

Average end-to-end latency and throughput at 1K context. Dashed line indicates quality threshold.

Metric@ 1 request@ 12 requests@ 19 requests
End-to-end latency770ms2,050ms (threshold exceeded)2953ms (threshold exceeded)
Throughput181 tok/s66 tok/s45 tok/s

Capacity limit: 12 concurrent requests

At 12 concurrent requests, end-to-end latency reaches 2050ms, just above the 2,000ms threshold.

Short-form Chatbot (8K Context)

Quick conversational exchanges: customer support queries, simple Q&A, single-turn requests. 8K context accommodates a few back-and-forth messages plus system prompt. User expectations are more forgiving for these scenarios. 10+ tok/s is acceptable for reading streamed responses from a support chatbot.

Thresholds: TTFT < 10s, generation speed > 10 tok/s

Average per-user generation speed and TTFT at 8K context. Dashed lines indicate quality thresholds.

Metric@ 1 request@ 59 requests@ 100 requests
TTFT0.4s~9.9s47.7s (threshold exceeded)
Generation speed162 tok/s~22 tok/s17 tok/s

Capacity limit: ~59 concurrent requests

At 59 concurrent requests, TTFT reaches ~9.9 seconds, just under the 10-second threshold. Generation speed at this concurrency is ~22 tok/s, above the 10 tok/s minimum.

General Chatbot (32K Context)

ChatGPT-style chatbot. If you're deploying a multi-turn conversational chatbot, this benchmark shows how many concurrent requests you can support while matching acceptable responsiveness. 32K context matches ChatGPT's limit.

Thresholds: TTFT < 8s, generation speed > 15 tok/s

Average per-user generation speed and TTFT at 32K context. Dashed lines indicate quality thresholds.

Metric@ 1 request@ 5 requests@ 6 requests
TTFT3.0s8.2s (threshold exceeded)9.7s (threshold exceeded)
Generation speed134 tok/s49 tok/s43 tok/s

Capacity limit: 5 concurrent requests

At 5 concurrent requests, TTFT reaches 8.2 seconds, just above the 8-second threshold. Generation speed at this concurrency is 49 tok/s, above the 15 tok/s minimum.

Note about caching: Most chatbot users build context incrementally over a conversation. With caching properly configured, TTFT is dramatically reduced since only new tokens require processing. These results represent worst-case TTFT where all context is processed at once.

Long Document Processing (64K Context)

Summarizing reports, extracting data from contracts, analyzing lengthy documents. 64K tokens handles documents up to roughly 125-160 pages depending on formatting and density.

Users typically tolerate higher latency for document processing since they understand large inputs require more processing time. However, generation speed still needs to stay at or above reading speed.

Thresholds: TTFT < 12s, generation speed > 15 tok/s

Average per-user generation speed and TTFT at 64K context. Dashed lines indicate quality thresholds.

Metric@ 1 request@ 2 requests@ 4 requests
TTFT9.4s14.0s (threshold exceeded)22.2s (threshold exceeded)
Generation speed103 tok/s62 tok/s33 tok/s

Capacity limit: 1 request

This configuration handles single-user document processing with 9.4s TTFT and 103 tok/s generation speed, acceptable for individual use.

Automated Coding Assistant (96K Context)

Agentic coding workloads: AI assistants that read large portions of a codebase to answer questions, refactor code, or implement features. 96K tokens handles roughly 8,000-9,000 lines of code, enough for significant repository context.

Agentic workflows chain multiple LLM calls (tool use, retrieval, iterative refinement). With caching properly configured, context persists between requests and only new tokens require processing, dramatically reducing TTFT for each step. These results represent worst-case TTFT where all context is processed at once.

Thresholds: TTFT < 12s, generation speed > 20 tok/s

Average per-user generation speed and TTFT at 96K context. Dashed lines indicate quality thresholds.

Metric@ 1 request@ 2 requests@ 4 requests
TTFT19.3s (threshold exceeded)27.8s (threshold exceeded)44.8s (threshold exceeded)
Generation speed83 tok/s42 tok/s20 tok/s

Capacity limit: Not recommended for this use case

This configuration doesn't meet agentic coding requirements at 96K context. Even at single-user load, performance falls below acceptable thresholds. To improve performance, enable prompt caching, reduce context length, or consider a smaller model.

Deep Dive

Technical Analysis

Infrastructure-level metrics that explain user-facing performance. Queue depth, prefill throughput, token generation latency, and scaling efficiency across load conditions. These help diagnose bottlenecks and validate infrastructure decisions.

Queue Wait Times

Time a request waits for GPU availability before processing begins. At low concurrency, queue wait is near zero. As load increases, requests queue and wait times grow.

Queue wait is included in TTFT. Breaking it out separately helps identify whether latency is caused by GPU saturation (high queue wait) or context processing (high prefill time).

Average queue wait time across 1K - 128K tokens context at 1 - 4 concurrent requests.

At single concurrency, queue wait is effectively zero regardless of context length. At 4 concurrent requests with 128K context, queue wait reaches 26.8 seconds. Rising queue times signal GPU saturation, meaning requests are waiting for resources rather than being processed immediately.

Interpretation: Queue wait time and prefill time are measured independently and may not sum exactly to TTFT. Under heavy load, chunked prefill and preemptions can cause these metrics to overlap, sometimes resulting in queue wait + prefill exceeding TTFT. Use queue wait for capacity planning and identifying bottlenecks. Use TTFT for actual user wait time before streaming begins.

Per-User Prefill Speed

Rate at which the model processes input context before generating output. Prefill speed determines the non-queue portion of TTFT. Higher prefill speeds mean faster time-to-first-token at a given context length.

Average per-user prefill speed across 1K - 128K tokens context at 1 - 4 concurrent requests.

Concurrent RequestsPeaks AtPeak Speed
18K context19,538 tok/s
28K context18,184 tok/s
38K context16,940 tok/s
41K context14,517 tok/s

Prefill speed peaks at a certain context length and then declines as additional context increases computational overhead. This peak can reflect GPU saturation (compute or memory bandwidth fully utilized) or engine configuration such as chunked prefill limits, which cap tokens processed per forward pass to maintain responsiveness under load. On the chart, this appears as lines that peak before reaching the longest context.

Inter-Token Latency

Time between consecutive tokens during generation. Determines the smoothness of streaming responses. Lower latency produces more fluid text output. ITL helps diagnose the underlying token-level behavior.

Average inter-token latency across 1K - 128K tokens context at 1 - 4 concurrent requests.

At single-user short context, inter-token latency is imperceptible (6ms). The highest latency observed was 101ms at 128K context with 4 concurrent requests, where individual tokens become visible as they stream.

Scaling Efficiency

Percentage of ideal linear scaling achieved as concurrency increases. 100% efficiency means doubling concurrent requests doubles total throughput with no per-user degradation. Real-world efficiency is always lower due to shared GPU resources.

Scaling efficiency across 1K - 128K tokens context at 1 - 4 concurrent requests.

Efficiency remains high at low concurrency where there are sufficient GPU resources to serve requests without contention. At higher concurrency, efficiency drops as requests compete for shared resources. High efficiency at your target concurrency indicates headroom for more users. Sharply dropping efficiency signals diminishing returns.

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Power Consumption

GPU power draw under varying load conditions. Relevant for operational cost estimation, cooling requirements, and data center power budgeting.

Average GPU power draw across 1K - 128K tokens context at 1 - 4 concurrent requests.

Power consumption scales with both context length and concurrency. The highest power draw observed was 530W at 128K context with 2 concurrent requests, costing approximately $0.05/hour at $0.10/kWh. Higher concurrency or sustained load beyond tested conditions may increase power consumption further. For infrastructure planning, budget for peak power draw.

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