NVIDIA · 30B (3B active) · Mixture of Experts
Hybrid Mamba-MoE reasoning model — 3B active, 1M context, multi-token prediction for faster decoding Check if your GPU or Mac can run Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B locally — 16.8 GB min, 27.9 GB recommended.
2026-081024K context
Mixture of Experts
Total experts: 128
Active experts: 6
Active params: 3.0B
| Quant | Bits | VRAM | Quality | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q2_K | 2 | 10.1 GB | low | — |
| Q3_K_M | 3 | 13.9 GB | moderate | — |
| Q4_K_M | 4 | 15.9 GB | good | — |
| Q5_K_M | 5 | 19.7 GB | good | — |
| Q6_K | 6 | 23.6 GB | excellent | — |
| Q8_0 | 8 | 31.2 GB | excellent | — |
| F16 | 16 | 62 GB | lossless | — |
Can I run Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B locally?
- Can I run Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B locally?
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B needs about 16.8 GB of memory at a minimum and 27.9 GB recommended. Open this page to grade it against your GPU or Mac, then run it with runai, Ollama or LM Studio.
- How much VRAM does Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B need?
- At Q4_K_M, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B uses about 15.9 GB of VRAM. Higher quants need more memory; lower quants fit tighter cards with a quality tradeoff.