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NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16

--- libraryname: transformers license: other licensename: openmdw-1.1 licenselink: https://openmdw.ai/license/1-1/ pipelinetag: text-generation language: - en - es - fr - de - it - ja tags: - nvidia - pytorch - nemotron-3.5 datasets: - nvidia/nemotron-post-training-v3 - nvidia/nemotron-pre-training-datasets trackdownloads: true ---

Params
31.6 B
Context
262,144
Downloads 30d
1.1 M
Likes
271
Licence: other Not gated SAFETENSORS 6 languages View on Hugging Face ↗

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Can you run it?

Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.

FileQuantSizeEst. VRAMVerdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB
model.safetensors bf16 65.8 GB 77.6 GB ❌ Won’t fit
model.safetensors (bf16, full) bf16 + 256K ctx 65.8 GB 224.5 GB ❌ Won’t fit
Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.

Run it

copy-paste, exact tags checked against the Hub
~ · curl · api/v1
$ curl -s https://aimodelscomparison.com/api/v1/models/nvidia-nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-bf16
{
  "hf_id": "nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16",
  "params_b": 31.58,
  "context_length": 262144,
  "license": { "id": "other", "commercial": "unknown" },
  "downloads_30d": 1082506,
  "vram_estimates": [
    { "quant": "bf16", "gb": 77.6 }
  ],
  "updated_at": "2026-08-27T01:00:14Z"
}
est. VRAM —on RTX 4090 · 24 GBJSON API →

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262,144 tokens
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Specifications

Architecture
NemotronHForCausalLM
Parameters
31.6 B
Tensor type
BF16
Context length
262,144
Vocabulary
131,072
Layers / heads
52 / 32
Licence
other
First seen on the Hub
2026-08-01
Training datasets
nvidia/nemotron-post-training-v3, nvidia/nemotron-pre-training-datasets
Added to our catalog
2026-08-27
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