What are the hardware requirements for NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B OptiQ 4bit?

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B OptiQ 4bit requires approximately 3.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 256K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B OptiQ 4bit and how large is it?

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B OptiQ 4bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 4b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B OptiQ 4bit?

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B OptiQ 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B OptiQ 4bit by mlx-community — VRAM 3.1GB, 256K context

Name: NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B OptiQ 4bit
Author: mlx-community

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B OptiQ 4bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 4b LLM, VRAM: 3.1GB, Context: 256K, License: other, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.27.

4-bit 4bit 8bit Apple-silicon Base model:mlx-community/nvidi... Base model:quantized:mlx-commu... Conversational Custom code Dataset:nvidia/nemotron-agenti... Dataset:nvidia/nemotron-cc-v2 Dataset:nvidia/nemotron-compet... Dataset:nvidia/nemotron-instru... Dataset:nvidia/nemotron-math-p... Dataset:nvidia/nemotron-post-t... Dataset:nvidia/nemotron-rl-age... Dataset:nvidia/nemotron-rl-age... Dataset:nvidia/nemotron-rl-ins... Dataset:nvidia/nemotron-rl-ins... Dataset:nvidia/nemotron-scienc... En Hybrid Instruct Mamba Mixed-precision Mlx Nemotron Nemotron h Nvidia Optiq Quantized Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-OptiQ-4bit

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B OptiQ 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B OptiQ 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-OptiQ-4bit
Base Model(s)	NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B BF16 mlx-community/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16
Model Size	4b
Required VRAM	3.1 GB
Updated	2026-07-31
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	nemotron_h
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	3.1 GB
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	NemotronHForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.53.0
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Vocabulary Size	131072
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B 4bit	256K / 2.2 GB	445	2
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B 6bit	256K / 3.2 GB	47	1
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B BF16	256K / 7.9 GB	131	2
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