Nemotron Cascade 2 30B-A3B — 32B Parameter Mixture of Experts LLM
Model Specifications
- Parameters
- 32B (3B active)
- Architecture
- Mixture of Experts
- Context Length
- 250K tokens
- Capabilities
- chat, reasoning, coding, math, tool_use
- Release Date
- 2026-03-19
- Family
- nemotron
VRAM Requirements
| Quantization | BPW | VRAM | Quality |
|---|---|---|---|
| IQ3_XXS | 3.25 | 13.5 GB | 82% |
| IQ3_XS | 3.5 | 14.5 GB | 84% |
| Q3_K_S | 3.64 | 15.0 GB | 85% |
| IQ3_M | 3.76 | 15.5 GB | 86% |
| Q3_K_M | 4 | 16.5 GB | 88% |
| Q3_K_L | 4.3 | 17.7 GB | 90% |
| IQ4_XS | 4.46 | 18.3 GB | 92% |
| Q4_K_S | 4.67 | 19.2 GB | 93% |
| Q4_K_M | 4.89 | 20.0 GB | 94% |
| Q5_K_S | 5.57 | 22.8 GB | 96% |
| Q5_K_M | 5.7 | 23.3 GB | 96% |
| Q6_K | 6.56 | 26.7 GB | 97% |
| Q8_0 | 8.5 | 34.5 GB | 100% |
| FP16 | 16 | 64.5 GB | 100% |
Benchmark Scores
MMLU-PRO79.8
LiveCodeBench87.2
SWE-bench50.2
AIME92.4
GPQA Diamond76.1
How to Run Nemotron Cascade 2 30B-A3B
Run Nemotron Cascade 2 30B-A3B locally with Ollama (needs 20.0 GB VRAM at Q4_K_M):
ollama run nemotron-cascade-2Compatible GPUs (30)
GPUs that can run Nemotron Cascade 2 30B-A3B at Q4_K_M quantization:
NVIDIA RTX 4090(24GB, 1008 GB/s)NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti(24GB, 1008 GB/s)NVIDIA RTX 3090(24GB, 936 GB/s)AMD RX 7900 XTX(24GB, 960 GB/s)Apple M4 Pro (24GB)(24GB, 273 GB/s)NVIDIA L4 24GB(24GB, 300 GB/s)NVIDIA A10 24GB(24GB, 600 GB/s)Apple M2 (24GB)(24GB, 100 GB/s)Apple M3 (24GB)(24GB, 100 GB/s)Apple M4 (24GB)(24GB, 120 GB/s)NVIDIA Tesla M40 24 GB(24GB, 288 GB/s)NVIDIA Tesla P10(24GB, 694 GB/s)NVIDIA Tesla P40(24GB, 347 GB/s)NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000(24GB, 672 GB/s)NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 Passive(24GB, 624 GB/s)