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NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4

--- 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 trackdownloads: true ---

Params
17.8 B
Context
1,048,576
Downloads 30d
1.0 M
Likes
493
Licence: other Not gated SAFETENSORS 6 languages View on Hugging Face ↗

Download history

daily snapshots · 86 days
▲ 186 K in the last 30 days (22.5%)
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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 u8 21.6 GB 26.9 GB ❌ Won’t fit
model.safetensors (bf16, full) bf16 + 1024K ctx 21.6 GB 366.4 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-nvfp4
{
  "hf_id": "nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4",
  "params_b": 17.82,
  "context_length": 1048576,
  "license": { "id": "other", "commercial": "unknown" },
  "downloads_30d": 1011751,
  "vram_estimates": [
    { "quant": "u8", "gb": 26.9 }
  ],
  "updated_at": "2026-09-11T01:00:11Z"
}
est. VRAM —on RTX 4090 · 24 GBJSON API →

Specifications

Architecture
NemotronHForCausalLM
Parameters
17.8 B
Tensor type
U8
Context length
1,048,576
Vocabulary
131,072
Layers / heads
52 / 32
Licence
other
First seen on the Hub
2026-08-04
Training datasets
undisclosed
Added to our catalog
2026-08-17
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