What are the hardware requirements for NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL FP8?

NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL FP8 requires approximately 15.4 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL FP8 and how large is it?

NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL FP8 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 VL FP8?

NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL FP8 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 VL FP8 by nvidia — VRAM 15.4GB

Name: NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL FP8
Author: nvidia

NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL FP8 is an open-source language model by nvidia. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 15.4GB, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.27.

Arxiv:2501.14818 Arxiv:2511.03929 Conversational Endpoints compatible Fp8 Image-text-to-text Nvidia Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Vlm

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-12B-v2-VL-FP8

NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL FP8 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL FP8
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-12B-v2-VL-FP8
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	15.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-10
Maintainer	nvidia
Model Type	NemotronH_Nano_VL_V2
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 5.0 GB: 3-of-4 0.4 GB: 4-of-4
Model Architecture	NemotronH_Nano_VL_V2
License	other
Transformers Version	4.53.3
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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