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NVIDIA Nemotron models: Versions, specs, GPU requirements & hosting

NVIDIA Nemotron provides Ultra, Super, Nano, Omni and Lightning tiers optimized for different throughput and reasoning targets.

Technical deployment reference illustration for NVIDIA Nemotron
Reference deployment flow; exact architecture facts are listed separately.

Overview and history

NVIDIA Nemotron is an official NVIDIA model family represented here through independently verified release, checkpoint, license, runtime and hardware evidence. NVIDIA Nemotron provides Ultra, Super, Nano, Omni and Lightning tiers optimized for different throughput and reasoning targets. Current public releases are grouped by the General, Omni, Speaker Diarization tracks so sibling sizes and specialist branches are not presented as false chronological generations.

FusionPointAI currently tracks 9 certified public NVIDIA Nemotron releases. The catalogue preserves release dates and evaluates Current, Recent, Previous and Legacy status within each model track rather than by database insertion order.

NVIDIA-optimized formats
Multiple scale tiers
Enterprise reasoning

Architecture and model range

The verified public range spans 0.1B to 550B total parameters and context windows up to 262,144 tokens. Each release states whether it is dense or mixture-of-experts and records active parameters separately when the official source publishes them.

Public releases9
Model tracks3
Current generationNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B
Last verified2026-09-04T00:00:00.000000Z

Generations, tracks and variants

General

Omni

Speaker diarization

Deployment ecosystem

Choose a specific NVIDIA Nemotron release and certified checkpoint before sizing hardware. FusionPointAI rejects unknown runtime configurations, calculates resident memory from total model weights, then distinguishes globally compatible GPUs from currently rentable inventory.

Validate the exact checkpoint license, runtime version, precision kernel, context length, concurrency and multi-GPU topology. Active MoE parameters affect compute, but resident model memory continues to use total stored weights.

Common use cases

High-throughput inference
Reasoning services
Multimodal agents

License overview

Licenses are certified per release, not inferred from the provider. Review the release page before commercial deployment because terms can differ between generations and variants.

Commercial-use status is a source-backed catalogue classification, not legal advice. Follow the linked official license and attribution requirements.

Release timeline

nvidia/nemotron/nvidia-nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b-nvfp4

Source details

Official source

Source revision: abcfa162387e5fea3060af98d7675b438f84aa342c134f52ae47f79898af65c1

nvidia/nemotron/nvidia-nemotron-35-lightning-30b-a3b-nvfp4

Source details

Official source

Source revision: f3923f78a1a7f78f04eb3b3b86306923df43dfa7f72f5989ab0aa4c2eb8c54ff

nvidia/nemotron/nvidia-nemotron-35-lightning-30b-a3b-nvfp4-dspark

Source details

Official source

Source revision: b939d8a0adc9e4ab46fc50be6172409fca1a92a532e347d2274c153d5d538e26

nvidia/nemotron/nvidia-nemotron-35-lightning-30b-a3b-nvfp4-dflash

Source details

Official source

Source revision: 7659a063e177eb2dbeac048c499e30fd10c5a7ced958405c505318957fa23562

nvidia/nemotron/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b

Source details

Official source

Source revision: ac6e67d70b7e8a6f10d1323aee594980c0fdb0a43eec104ffbe84e87897885ec

nvidia/nemotron/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b

Source details

Official source

Source revision: dc17dd660dd197ae989def582e149d930b898c480ac56fbc28aef4ad5508fb32

nvidia/nemotron/nemotron-3-diarization-preview

Source details

Official source

Source revision: a43022e40b9883fb75078c47c5d4c995436863bb26e26f13a1a7e836ea519229

nvidia/nemotron/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b

Source details

Official source

Source revision: 680e0e5a3131d196ec831e0f1d320c7e0a5405faac89108daf9591babe14134c

nvidia/nemotron/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning-fp8

Source details

Official source

Source revision: dd885e9548478d0d433c1239ed4598ad4a9faf7f58a8c706ab89885e5e2117fa

Frequently asked questions

Which NVIDIA Nemotron release is current?

Current releases are NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B Reasoning FP8, evaluated within their respective tracks.

Can NVIDIA Nemotron be self-hosted?

Only releases with a verified official checkpoint and supported runtime configuration are presented as deployable.

Which GPU should run NVIDIA Nemotron?

GPU selection depends on the exact variant, checkpoint precision, context length and concurrency; use the release hardware recommendations rather than the family name alone.

Official references

Last verified: 2026-09-04