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NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-mxfp8

mlx-community/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-mxfp8
MXFP8 Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
32B
Weights (est.)
≈ 33.6 GB
Mac memory (est.)
48 GB+

Size is estimated from the parameter count and quantisation. Memory allows a fifth extra for context plus 2 GB for the system; long contexts need more.

Run it

With mlx-lm on an Apple silicon Mac:

pip install mlx-lmmlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-mxfp8 --prompt "Hello"

Details

Base model
nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16 (quantized) · NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B BF16 on the radar →
Vendor
NVIDIA
Task
Text generation
Quantisation
MXFP8
Licence
openmdw-1.1
Downloads
919 in the last 30 days · 2.2K all time · 0 likes
Published
2026-08-11 · updated 2026-08-11 (3mo ago)
Languages
en, es, fr, de, it, ja
Tags
nemotron_h, nvidia, pytorch, nemotron-3.5

Other MLX builds of nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-DSpark-bf16 bf16 ≈ 1.9 GB 8 GB+ 174
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-4bit 4-bit ≈ 17.8 GB 24 GB+ 2.6K
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-OptiQ-4bit 4-bit ≈ 17.8 GB 24 GB+ 807
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-mxfp4 MXFP4 ≈ 17.8 GB 24 GB+ 534
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-mxfp8 (this one) MXFP8 ≈ 33.6 GB 48 GB+ 919
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-8bit 8-bit ≈ 33.6 GB 48 GB+ 439
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-bf16 bf16 ≈ 63.2 GB 96 GB+ 939