What are the hardware requirements for NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B BF16?

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B BF16 requires approximately 65.9 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 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B BF16 and how large is it?

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B BF16 is developed by nvidia, 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 NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B BF16?

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B BF16 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B BF16 by nvidia — VRAM 65.9GB, 256K context

Name: NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B BF16
Author: nvidia

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B BF16 is an open-source language model by nvidia. Features: 30b LLM, VRAM: 65.9GB, Context: 256K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.34.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B BF16 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B BF16
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16
Model Size	30b
Required VRAM	65.9 GB
Updated	2026-08-11
Maintainer	nvidia
Model Type	nemotron_h
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-14 5.0 GB: 2-of-14 5.0 GB: 3-of-14 5.0 GB: 4-of-14 5.0 GB: 5-of-14 5.0 GB: 6-of-14 5.0 GB: 7-of-14 5.0 GB: 8-of-14 5.0 GB: 9-of-14 5.0 GB: 10-of-14 5.0 GB: 11-of-14 5.0 GB: 12-of-14 3.2 GB: 13-of-14 2.7 GB: 14-of-14
Supported Languages	en es fr de it ja
Model Architecture	NemotronHForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.57.6
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|im_end\|>
Vocabulary Size	131072

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Quantized Models of the NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B BF16

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
...ron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B 4bit	4	2504	17 GB
...5 Lightning 30B A3B OptiQ 4bit	2	416	22 GB
...3.5 Lightning 30B A3B MLX 6bit	1	182	25 GB

Best Alternatives to NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B BF16

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
...on 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4	1024K / 12.6 GB	19250	100
...30B A3B NVFP4 Global Pruned 15	1024K / 11 GB	148	19
...A Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B BF16	256K / 63.2 GB	1645889	752
... Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B NVFP4	256K / 19.3 GB	1568	8
Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B	256K / 63.2 GB	88240	518
...IA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B FP8	256K / 32.7 GB	566152	356
... Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B NVFP4	256K / 19.3 GB	765499	174
Phonellm Alpha 1	256K / 63.2 GB	64	107
...otron 3 Nano 30B A3B Base BF16	256K / 63.2 GB	90736	127
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B	256K / 63.2 GB	174315	14

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16.