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NVIDIANemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B

Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B — NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL compressed to 74B total, 9B active, built to run locally. A hybrid Mamba-2/attention MoE that keeps an attention cache on only 8 of its 88 layers. NVIDIA's native 2-bit build fits a 24GB card.

chatcodingreasoningmultilingualvisionagentictool_use
74.89B
Parameters (9B active)
256K
Context length
5
Benchmarks
16
Quantizations
8K
HF downloads
Architecture
MoE
Released
2026-10-15
Layers
88
KV Heads
2
Head Dim
128
Family
nemotron

Quantization Options

Context length:
QuantBitsVRAM @ 16KQuality
IQ2_M2.93
28.0 GB
27.9 + 0.1 KV
low
Q2_K3.16
30.2 GB
30.1 + 0.1 KV
low
IQ3_XXS3.25
31.0 GB
30.9 + 0.1 KV
low
IQ3_XS3.5
33.3 GB
33.3 + 0.1 KV
low
Q3_K_S3.64
34.7 GB
34.6 + 0.1 KV
low
IQ3_M3.76
35.8 GB
35.7 + 0.1 KV
low
Q3_K_M4
38.0 GB
37.9 + 0.1 KV
low
Q3_K_L4.3
40.8 GB
40.7 + 0.1 KV
moderate
IQ4_XS4.46
42.3 GB
42.2 + 0.1 KV
moderate
Q4_K_S4.67
44.3 GB
44.2 + 0.1 KV
moderate
Q4_K_M4.89
46.4 GB
46.3 + 0.1 KV
good
Q5_K_S5.57
52.7 GB
52.6 + 0.1 KV
good
Q5_K_M5.7
53.9 GB
53.8 + 0.1 KV
good
Q6_K6.56
62.0 GB
61.9 + 0.1 KV
excellent
Q8_08.5
80.2 GB
80.1 + 0.1 KV
lossless
FP1616
150.4 GB
150.3 + 0.1 KV
lossless

Select your GPU above to see speed estimates and compatibility for each quantization.

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Benchmarks (5)

GPQA Diamond88.8
AA Long Context69.7
SciCode39.7
HLE24.7
Terminal-Bench 40.0

Run this model

▸Easiest way to get started·Beginners
DOCS ↗
curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
$ollama run nemotron-3.5-bolt:74b-a9b

Tag may need adjustment — check ollama.com/library/nemotron-3.5-bolt for available tags.

▸ SETUP GUIDE
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Auto-setup with fitmyllm CLI

Detects your GPU, recommends the best model, downloads it, and starts chatting — zero config. Benchmarks your speed and contributes anonymous data to improve predictions.

pip install fitmyllmthen run fitmyllmLearn more
Auto-detect GPULive tok/s in chatSpeed benchmarks9 inference engines

GPUs that can run this model

At Q4_K_M quantization. Sorted by minimum VRAM.

Apple M3 Max (48GB)
48 GB VRAM • 400 GB/s
APPLE
$2899
Apple M4 Pro (48GB)
48 GB VRAM • 273 GB/s
APPLE
$1799
Apple M4 Max (48GB)
48 GB VRAM • 546 GB/s
APPLE
$2499
NVIDIA L40S 48GB
48 GB VRAM • 864 GB/s
NVIDIA
$7500
NVIDIA L40 48GB
48 GB VRAM • 864 GB/s
NVIDIA
$5500
NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 48GB
48 GB VRAM • 960 GB/s
NVIDIA
$6800
NVIDIA A40 48GB
48 GB VRAM • 696 GB/s
NVIDIA
$4650
NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB
48 GB VRAM • 768 GB/s
NVIDIA
$4650
NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000
48 GB VRAM • 672 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 Passive
48 GB VRAM • 624 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA A40 PCIe
48 GB VRAM • 696 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation
48 GB VRAM • 960 GB/s
NVIDIA
$6800
NVIDIA L20
48 GB VRAM • 864 GB/s
NVIDIA
AMD Radeon PRO W7800 48 GB
48 GB VRAM • 864 GB/s
AMD
$3499
AMD Radeon PRO W7900
48 GB VRAM • 864 GB/s
AMD
$3999
Intel Data Center GPU Max 1100
48 GB VRAM • 1230 GB/s
INTEL
NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation
48 GB VRAM • 864 GB/s
NVIDIA
$5500
NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell
48 GB VRAM • 1340 GB/s
NVIDIA
$4999
AMD Radeon PRO W7900D
48 GB VRAM • 864 GB/s
AMD
$3999
NVIDIA GRID A100B
48 GB VRAM • 1870 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA RTX A6000
48 GB VRAM • 768 GB/s
NVIDIA
$4650
NVIDIA L40
48 GB VRAM • 864 GB/s
NVIDIA
$7000
NVIDIA L40S
48 GB VRAM • 864 GB/s
NVIDIA
$8000
Apple M5 Pro (48GB)
48 GB VRAM • 200 GB/s
APPLE
Apple M5 Max (48GB)
48 GB VRAM • 614 GB/s
APPLE
Apple M1 Ultra (64GB)
64 GB VRAM • 800 GB/s
APPLE
$2499
Apple M2 Ultra (64GB)
64 GB VRAM • 800 GB/s
APPLE
$2999
Apple M4 Max (64GB)
64 GB VRAM • 546 GB/s
APPLE
$2899
Apple M2 Max (64GB)
64 GB VRAM • 400 GB/s
APPLE
$2299
Apple M3 Max (64GB)
64 GB VRAM • 300 GB/s
APPLE
$2799

Find the best GPU for Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B

Build Hardware for Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B
▸ SPEC SHEET

Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B — 74.89B MoE.

▸ SPECIFICATIONS
PARAMETERS
74.89B (9B active)
ARCHITECTURE
Mixture of Experts
CONTEXT LENGTH
256K tokens
CAPABILITIES
chat, coding, reasoning, multilingual, vision, agentic, tool_use
RELEASE DATE
2026-10-15
PROVIDER
NVIDIA
FAMILY
nemotron
▸ VRAM REQUIREMENTS
QUANTBPWVRAMQUALITY
IQ2_M2.9327.9 GB75%
Q2_K3.1630.1 GB78%
IQ3_XXS3.2530.9 GB82%
IQ3_XS3.533.3 GB84%
Q3_K_S3.6434.6 GB85%
IQ3_M3.7635.7 GB86%
Q3_K_M437.9 GB88%
Q3_K_L4.340.7 GB90%
IQ4_XS4.4642.2 GB92%
Q4_K_S4.6744.2 GB93%
Q4_K_M4.8946.3 GB94%
Q5_K_S5.5752.6 GB96%
Q5_K_M5.753.8 GB96%
Q6_K6.5661.9 GB97%
Q8_08.580.1 GB100%
FP1616150.3 GB100%
§ 01BENCHMARK SCORES
GPQA Diamond88.8
HLE24.7
aa_scicode39.7
aa_lcr69.7
aa_terminal_bench_v40.0
§ 02RUN COMMAND

Run Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B locally with Ollama — needs 46.3 GB VRAM at Q4_K_M:

$ollama run nemotron-3.5-bolt:74b-a9b
§ 03COMPATIBLE GPUs
30 @ Q4_K_M