What are the hardware requirements for NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2?

NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 requires approximately 17.7 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 9B V2 and how large is it?

NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 is developed by unsloth, a model with 9b 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 9B V2?

NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 by unsloth — VRAM 17.7GB, 128K context

Name: NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2
Author: unsloth

NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 is an open-source language model by unsloth. Features: 9b LLM, VRAM: 17.7GB, Context: 128K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.21.

Arxiv:2412.02595 Arxiv:2504.03624 Arxiv:2508.14444 Base model:finetune:nvidia/nvi... Base model:nvidia/nvidia-nemot... Conversational Dataset:nvidia/nemotron-cc-mat... Dataset:nvidia/nemotron-cc-v2 Dataset:nvidia/nemotron-post-t... Dataset:nvidia/nemotron-post-t... Dataset:nvidia/nemotron-pretra... Dataset:nvidia/nemotron-pretra... De En Endpoints compatible Es Fr It Ja Nvidia Pytorch Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2

NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/unsloth/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2
Base Model(s)	NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B V2 nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2 nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-12B-v2
Model Size	9b
Required VRAM	17.7 GB
Updated	2026-08-07
Maintainer	unsloth
Model Type	nemotron_h
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-4 4.9 GB: 2-of-4 4.9 GB: 3-of-4 3.0 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	en es fr de it ja
Model Architecture	NemotronHForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.56.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<SPECIAL_999>
Vocabulary Size	131072

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