What are the hardware requirements for NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B W4A16?

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B W4A16 requires approximately 17.8 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 W4A16 and how large is it?

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B W4A16 is developed by useful-quants, 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 W4A16?

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B W4A16 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 W4A16 by useful-quants — VRAM 17.8GB, 256K context

Name: NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B W4A16
Author: useful-quants

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B W4A16 is an open-source language model by useful-quants. Features: 30b LLM, VRAM: 17.8GB, Context: 256K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.31.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/useful-quants/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-W4A16

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B W4A16 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B W4A16
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/useful-quants/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-W4A16
Base Model(s)	nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16 nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16
Model Size	30b
Required VRAM	17.8 GB
Updated	2026-08-14
Maintainer	useful-quants
Model Type	nemotron_h
Model Files	17.8 GB
Supported Languages	en es fr de it ja
Model Architecture	NemotronHForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	5.10.1
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|im_end\|>
Vocabulary Size	131072

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