What are the hardware requirements for NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B FP8?

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B FP8 requires approximately 5.3 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 FP8 and how large is it?

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B FP8 is developed by nvidia, 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 FP8?

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B FP8 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 FP8 by nvidia — VRAM 5.3GB, 256K context

Name: NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B FP8
Author: nvidia

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B FP8 is an open-source language model by nvidia. Features: 4b LLM, VRAM: 5.3GB, Context: 256K, License: other, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.31.

Arxiv:2412.02595 Arxiv:2504.03624 Arxiv:2511.16664 Arxiv:2512.20848 Arxiv:2512.20856 Base model:nvidia/nvidia-nemot... Base model:quantized:nvidia/nv... 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 Endpoints compatible Instruct Nemotron h Nvidia Pytorch Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-FP8

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B FP8 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B FP8
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-FP8
Base Model(s)	NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4B FP8 nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-FP8
Model Size	4b
Required VRAM	5.3 GB
Updated	2026-07-21
Maintainer	nvidia
Model Type	nemotron_h
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	4.0 GB: 1-of-2 1.3 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	NemotronHForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.53.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	131072
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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