What are the hardware requirements for Nemotron H 8B Reasoning 128K?

Nemotron H 8B Reasoning 128K requires approximately 16.2 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 Nemotron H 8B Reasoning 128K and how large is it?

Nemotron H 8B Reasoning 128K is developed by nvidia, a model with 8b 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 H 8B Reasoning 128K?

Nemotron H 8B Reasoning 128K is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Nemotron H 8B Reasoning 128K by nvidia — VRAM 16.2GB, 128K context

Name: Nemotron H 8B Reasoning 128K
Author: nvidia

Nemotron H 8B Reasoning 128K is an open-source language model by nvidia. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.2GB, Context: 128K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.2.

Arxiv:2504.03624 Arxiv:2505.00949 Conversational En Endpoints compatible Nvidia Pytorch Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Nemotron-H-8B-Reasoning-128K

Nemotron H 8B Reasoning 128K Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Nemotron H 8B Reasoning 128K
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Nemotron-H-8B-Reasoning-128K
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.2 GB
Updated	2026-07-11
Maintainer	nvidia
Model Type	nemotron_h
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-4 4.9 GB: 2-of-4 4.9 GB: 3-of-4 1.4 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	NemotronHForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.48.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	131072
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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