Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 vs NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-FP8

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

nvidia · A
Params
18.7 B
Context
30d
8.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
RedHatAI · B
Params
31.6 B
Context
262,144
30d
357 K

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-FP8
Parameters 18.7 B 31.6 B
Architecture Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration NemotronHForCausalLM
Context length 262,144
Licence apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages
Downloads 30d 8,020,372 357,352
Downloads all time 34.6 M 359 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-05-27 2026-08-13

Download trend

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

12.6 M227 K
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-FP8

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 · fp16 29.1 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-FP8 · fp16 @ 256K ctx 187.6 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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