Qwen3-32B vs NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
32.8 B
Context
40,960
30d
5.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
nvidia · B
Params
31.6 B
Context
262,144
30d
570 K

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-32B NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16
Parameters 32.8 B 31.6 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM NemotronHForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 6
Downloads 30d 4,959,369 569,990
Downloads all time 57.5 M 698 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2026-08-01

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

10.1 M376 K
Qwen3-32B NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Qwen3-32B · fp16 77.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16 · fp16 @ 256K ctx 224.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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