Can I run this LLM?
Can a NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti (16GB) run Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B (MoE)?
Nemotron · openmdw-1.1 · estimated for a 16.0 GB machine at 4K context.
No — too big for this machine.
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B (MoE) needs more memory than the 16.0 GB on a NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti (16GB), even at its smallest quantization.
Arena Text Overall · style-controlled
UnratedAmbiguous matchAmbiguous Arena identity; unrated
Arena identity is ambiguous. The published NVFP4 configuration differs from generic local GGUF quantizations. No rating is assigned or used for ranking. Local quantization quality is unmeasured.
Snapshot published 2026-10-08 · snapshot imported 2026-10-11 UTC · validated last-good data · manual refresh
Arena leaderboard dataset · Arena / lmarena-ai, Arena Leaderboard Dataset (CC BY 4.0). Selected Text Overall style-controlled rows; field names adapted, ratings unchanged. · dataset CC BY 4.0 · revision e16f90232986
Too big for your machine — run it in the cloud
Needs 1× 48 GB GPU (A6000 / L40S) · about $0.50–1.50/hr
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