Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B-A3B, Q8)
NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning at 30B parameters — text-only, with native reasoning, native tool calling, and a 256K context window. 8-bit quantization for higher fidelity than the Q4 build, at roughly a third more memory (about 35GB, or 34GB on Apple Silicon).
| At a glance | |
|---|---|
| Made by | NVIDIA |
| Download size | 35.0 GB |
| Parameters | 30B |
| Quantization | Q8_0 |
| Context window | 262K tokens |
| Uses tools | Yes |
| Best for | Reasoning |
| Runs on | llama.cpp, MLX |
| License | OpenMDW 1.1 |
| Added to the catalog | 2026-08-15 |
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