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Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
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by Nvidia
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RANKED #276 OF 316 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #428 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 5.2 · 81 VOICES ·
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Nemotron-Nano-3-30B-A3B is a compact Mixture-of-Experts model optimized for efficient reasoning, chat, and coding, with strong multilingual support and long-context RAG and agent workflows.
HAPPY7.6
6 mentions
SAD7.4
4 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 82 voices in this window
HOLDING UP
Recent vibe is steady. No clear fade in the crowd.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
31.6B total parameters (hybrid Mamba-2/Transformer MoE activating ~3.5B params), a Q4 quantized file is about 18 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB plus 32GB system RAM
12 GB VRAM + 32 GB RAM
~$250 USEDQ4 quantization with layer offloading to CPU RAM, ~12 tok/s, 8k context
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$700 USEDQ4/Q5 quantization fully offloaded to GPU VRAM, ~55 tok/s, 32k context
- FULL POWER
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$1800 NEWFP8 quantization or fast Q8 with full acceleration, ~85 tok/s, 64k context
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN NEMOTRON 3 NANO 30B A3B?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB plus 32GB system RAM | SWEET SPOTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB | FULL POWERNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~42 S★★★★★ | ~9 S★★★★★ | ~6 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~2.1 MIN★★★★★ | ~27 S★★★★★ | ~18 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~11 MIN★★★★★ | ~2.4 MIN★★★★★ | ~1.6 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~35 MIN★★★★★ | ~7.6 MIN★★★★★ | ~4.9 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~21 MIN★★★★★ | ~4.5 MIN★★★★★ | ~2.9 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Not enough discussion about Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B yet to call it. We found 82 posts but people did not say much either way.
72 POSTS · 10 COMMENTS · GITHUB · REDDIT · BLUESKY · LEMMY · DEV FORUMS
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Other models the crowd has fully reviewed, starting with multimodal models like this one.
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Qwen3.8 27B> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2025-12-15 · 166 UPVOTESNVIDIA - Nemotron 3 Nano out now!
NVIDIA - Nemotron 3 Nano out now!
- REDDIT · 2026-07-22 · 144 UPVOTESDespite not being trained to, it turns out the Pearson correlation between a models AA Intelligence Index score and its ability to generate…
Despite not being trained to, it turns out the Pearson correlation between a models AA Intelligence Index score and its ability to generate Base64 encoded responses is 0.91
- REDDIT · 2025-12-18 · 36 UPVOTESNvidia's Nemotron 3 swaps pure Transformers for a Mamba hybrid to run AI agents efficiently
Nvidia's Nemotron 3 swaps pure Transformers for a Mamba hybrid to run AI agents efficiently
- REDDIT · 2026-02-10 · 34 UPVOTESLast week in Image & Video Generation
Last week in Image & Video Generation
- REDDIT · 2025-12-23 · 11 UPVOTESChatgpt 5.2 goes off the rails
Chatgpt 5.2 goes off the rails
- REDDIT · 2025-12-21 · 11 UPVOTESComment in r/SillyTavernAI
Comment in r/SillyTavernAI
- REDDIT · 2026-07-04 · 8 UPVOTESWe'll benchmark an Open weights LLM on any GPU you choose — drop your model + hardware and we'll run it.
We'll benchmark an Open weights LLM on any GPU you choose — drop your model + hardware and we'll run it.
- REDDIT · 2026-08-31 · 8 UPVOTESGnani AI: A New Foundation Model, or Just Nemotron Rebranded? 👀
Gnani AI: A New Foundation Model, or Just Nemotron Rebranded? 👀
- REDDIT · 2026-01-28 · 7 UPVOTESAssistant_Pepe_8B, 1-M context, zero slop
Assistant_Pepe_8B, 1-M context, zero slop
- REDDIT · 2026-02-09 · 7 UPVOTESMake tool calling native in open web ui
Make tool calling native in open web ui
- REDDIT · 2026-01-16 · 6 UPVOTESPolymcp Integrates Ollama – Local and Cloud Execution Made Simple
Polymcp Integrates Ollama – Local and Cloud Execution Made Simple
- GITHUB · 2026-09-25 · 0 UPVOTESDO NOT MERGE: Hopper H100 Qwen and H200 Nemotron working stack
DO NOT MERGE: Hopper H100 Qwen and H200 Nemotron working stack