What are the hardware requirements for Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B 5bit?

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B 5bit requires approximately 21.6 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 Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B 5bit and how large is it?

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B 5bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 30b 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 Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B 5bit?

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B 5bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B 5bit by mlx-community — VRAM 21.6GB, 256K context

Name: Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B 5bit
Author: mlx-community

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B 5bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 30b LLM, VRAM: 21.6GB, Context: 256K, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.23.

5-bit 5bit Base model:nvidia/nemotron-cas... Base model:quantized:nvidia/ne... Conversational Custom code En General-purpose Mlx Nemotron-cascade-2 Nemotron h Nvidia Quantized Reasoning Region:us Rl Safetensors Sft Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B-5bit

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B 5bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B 5bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B-5bit
Base Model(s)	Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B nvidia/Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B
Model Size	30b
Required VRAM	21.6 GB
Updated	2026-08-10
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	nemotron_h
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-5 5.1 GB: 2-of-5 5.0 GB: 3-of-5 5.1 GB: 4-of-5 1.1 GB: 5-of-5
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	5bit
Model Architecture	NemotronHForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.55.4
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|im_end\|>
Vocabulary Size	131072
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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