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nemotronNemotron Cascade 2 30B-A3B

We're excited to introduce Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B, an open 30B MoE model with 3B activated parameters that delivers strong reasoning and agentic capabilities. It is post-trained from the Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-Base.

chatreasoningcodingmathtool_use
32B
Parameters (3B active)
250K
Context length
13
Benchmarks
14
Quantizations
Architecture
MoE
Released
2026-03-19
Layers
52
KV Heads
2
Head Dim
128
Family
nemotron

Quantization Options

Context length:
QuantBitsVRAM @ 16KQuality
IQ3_XXS3.25
14.1 GB
13.5 + 0.6 KV
low
IQ3_XS3.5
15.1 GB
14.5 + 0.6 KV
low
Q3_K_S3.64
15.7 GB
15.0 + 0.6 KV
low
IQ3_M3.76
16.1 GB
15.5 + 0.6 KV
low
Q3_K_M4
17.1 GB
16.5 + 0.6 KV
low
Q3_K_L4.3
18.3 GB
17.7 + 0.6 KV
moderate
IQ4_XS4.46
18.9 GB
18.3 + 0.6 KV
moderate
Q4_K_S4.67
19.8 GB
19.2 + 0.6 KV
moderate
Q4_K_M4.89
20.7 GB
20.0 + 0.6 KV
good
Q5_K_S5.57
23.4 GB
22.8 + 0.6 KV
good
Q5_K_M5.7
23.9 GB
23.3 + 0.6 KV
good
Q6_K6.56
27.3 GB
26.7 + 0.6 KV
excellent
Q8_08.5
35.1 GB
34.5 + 0.6 KV
lossless
FP1616
65.1 GB
64.5 + 0.6 KV
lossless

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

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Benchmarks (13)

AIME92.4
LiveCodeBench87.2
IFBench80.4
MMLU-PRO79.8
GPQA Diamond76.1
τ²-Bench54.1
SWE-bench50.2
SciCode34.8
AA Long Context34.0
AA Intelligence28.4
AA Coding25.8
Terminal-Bench21.2
HLE11.4

Run this model

▸Easiest way to get started·Beginners
DOCS ↗
curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
$ollama run nemotron-cascade-2

Tag may need adjustment — check ollama.com/library/nemotron-cascade-2 for available tags.

▸ SETUP GUIDE
>_

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
HuggingFaceOllama LibraryGGUF DownloadsBuild Hardware

GPUs that can run this model

At Q4_K_M quantization. Sorted by minimum VRAM.

NVIDIA RTX 4090
24 GB VRAM • 1008 GB/s
NVIDIA
$1599
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti
24 GB VRAM • 1008 GB/s
NVIDIA
$999
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA RTX 3090
24 GB VRAM • 936 GB/s
NVIDIA
$850
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
AMD RX 7900 XTX
24 GB VRAM • 960 GB/s
AMD
$999
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
Apple M4 Pro (24GB)
24 GB VRAM • 273 GB/s
APPLE
$1399
NVIDIA L4 24GB
24 GB VRAM • 300 GB/s
NVIDIA
$2500
NVIDIA A10 24GB
24 GB VRAM • 600 GB/s
NVIDIA
$3500
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
Apple M2 (24GB)
24 GB VRAM • 100 GB/s
APPLE
$999
Apple M3 (24GB)
24 GB VRAM • 100 GB/s
APPLE
$999
Apple M4 (24GB)
24 GB VRAM • 120 GB/s
APPLE
$699
NVIDIA Tesla M40 24 GB
24 GB VRAM • 288 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Tesla P10
24 GB VRAM • 694 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Tesla P40
24 GB VRAM • 347 GB/s
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000
24 GB VRAM • 672 GB/s
NVIDIA
$4000
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 Passive
24 GB VRAM • 624 GB/s
NVIDIA
$4000
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
24 GB VRAM • 936 GB/s
NVIDIA
$1499
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA A10 PCIe
24 GB VRAM • 600 GB/s
NVIDIA
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA A10G
24 GB VRAM • 600 GB/s
NVIDIA
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA RTX A5000
24 GB VRAM • 768 GB/s
NVIDIA
$2500
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
24 GB VRAM • 1010 GB/s
NVIDIA
$1999
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
24 GB VRAM • 1010 GB/s
NVIDIA
$1599
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA L40 CNX
24 GB VRAM • 864 GB/s
NVIDIA
$5000
NVIDIA L40G
24 GB VRAM • 864 GB/s
NVIDIA
$5000
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
24 GB VRAM • 960 GB/s
AMD
$999
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D
24 GB VRAM • 1010 GB/s
NVIDIA
$1599
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D V2
24 GB VRAM • 1340 GB/s
NVIDIA
$1999
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA TITAN RTX
24 GB VRAM • 672 GB/s
NVIDIA
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA A30 PCIe
24 GB VRAM • 933 GB/s
NVIDIA
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA A30X
24 GB VRAM • 1220 GB/s
NVIDIA
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai
NVIDIA PG506-207
24 GB VRAM • 933 GB/s
NVIDIA
AmazonNeweggeBayPCPartPickerRent on RunPodRent on Vast.ai

Find the best GPU for Nemotron Cascade 2 30B-A3B

Build Hardware for Nemotron Cascade 2 30B-A3B
▸ SPEC SHEET

Nemotron Cascade 2 30B-A3B — 32B MoE.

▸ 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
QUANTBPWVRAMQUALITY
IQ3_XXS3.2513.5 GB82%
IQ3_XS3.514.5 GB84%
Q3_K_S3.6415.0 GB85%
IQ3_M3.7615.5 GB86%
Q3_K_M416.5 GB88%
Q3_K_L4.317.7 GB90%
IQ4_XS4.4618.3 GB92%
Q4_K_S4.6719.2 GB93%
Q4_K_M4.8920.0 GB94%
Q5_K_S5.5722.8 GB96%
Q5_K_M5.723.3 GB96%
Q6_K6.5626.7 GB97%
Q8_08.534.5 GB100%
FP161664.5 GB100%
§ 01BENCHMARK SCORES
MMLU-PRO79.8
LiveCodeBench87.2
SWE-bench50.2
AIME92.4
GPQA Diamond76.1
HLE11.4
AA Intelligence28.4
AA Coding25.8
aa_ifbench80.4
aa_terminal_bench21.2
aa_tau254.1
aa_scicode34.8
aa_lcr34.0
§ 02RUN COMMAND

Run Nemotron Cascade 2 30B-A3B locally with Ollama — needs 20.0 GB VRAM at Q4_K_M:

$ollama run nemotron-cascade-2
§ 03COMPATIBLE GPUs
30 @ Q4_K_M
NVIDIA RTX 4090
24 GB · 1008 GB/s
NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti
24 GB · 1008 GB/s
NVIDIA RTX 3090
24 GB · 936 GB/s
AMD RX 7900 XTX
24 GB · 960 GB/s
Apple M4 Pro (24GB)
24 GB · 273 GB/s
NVIDIA L4 24GB
24 GB · 300 GB/s
NVIDIA A10 24GB
24 GB · 600 GB/s
Apple M2 (24GB)
24 GB · 100 GB/s
Apple M3 (24GB)
24 GB · 100 GB/s
Apple M4 (24GB)
24 GB · 120 GB/s
NVIDIA Tesla M40 24 GB
24 GB · 288 GB/s
NVIDIA Tesla P10
24 GB · 694 GB/s
NVIDIA Tesla P40
24 GB · 347 GB/s
NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000
24 GB · 672 GB/s
NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 Passive
24 GB · 624 GB/s