Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open-weights language model from NVIDIA, released August 11, 2026. Its makers disclosed about 30B parameters.
[...] NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open 30B mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 3B active parameters built for that execution layer of always-on agents. It is designed for harnesses like OpenClaw and Hermes Agent—all supported by the NVIDIA NemoClaw open source security and management stack for running …
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Can you run Nemotron 3.5 Lightning locally?
Even with 32 GB of VRAM and 32 GB of RAM it is too large to run at a usable speed on a single consumer GPU. Estimates assume 32 GB of DDR5 RAM, a 16K context and llama.cpp-style GGUF quantization. Enter your exact hardware in the live app.
| GPU memory | Verdict | Best quant | VRAM | RAM | tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 GB VRAM | Size unknown | – | – | – | – |
| 8 GB VRAM | Size unknown | – | – | – | – |
| 12 GB VRAM | Size unknown | – | – | – | – |
| 16 GB VRAM | Size unknown | – | – | – | – |
| 24 GB VRAM | Size unknown | – | – | – | – |
| 32 GB VRAM | Size unknown | – | – | – | – |
Parameter count unknown. The weights may not be on Hugging Face yet.
Benchmark results
Epoch AI has not published results for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning yet. New models are usually evaluated within days to weeks.
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