What are the hardware requirements for NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B V2 Base?

NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B V2 Base requires approximately 24.6 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B V2 Base and how large is it?

NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B V2 Base is developed by nvidia, a model with 12b 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 Nano 12B V2 Base?

NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B V2 Base is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B V2 Base by nvidia — VRAM 24.6GB, 128K context

Name: NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B V2 Base
Author: nvidia

NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B V2 Base is an open-source language model by nvidia. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 24.6GB, Context: 128K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.24.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-12B-v2-Base

NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B V2 Base Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B V2 Base
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-12B-v2-Base
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	24.6 GB
Updated	2026-08-04
Maintainer	nvidia
Model Type	nemotron_h
Model Files	4.8 GB: 1-of-6 4.9 GB: 2-of-6 4.8 GB: 3-of-6 4.9 GB: 4-of-6 3.9 GB: 5-of-6 1.3 GB: 6-of-6
Supported Languages	en es fr de ja it pt zh ar da ko nl pl ru sv th
Model Architecture	NemotronHForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.53.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	131072
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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