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Can a RX 9070 XT 16GB run Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B (MoE)?

No. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B (MoE) does not fit on RX 9070 XT 16GB: Q4_K_M needs 26.4 GB and 15.5 GB is usable.

Hardware: RX 9070 XT 16GB · Model: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B (MoE)

RX 9070 XT 16GB has 16 GB of VRAM and 640 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The checker holds back 0.5 GB of VRAM for the driver and assumes 16 GB of system RAM, so fast memory usable by Ollama is 15.5 GB. Partial offload may also use 60% of that system RAM. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B (MoE) (31.6B, 3B active, NVIDIA) at Q4_K_M is a 25 GB download and needs 26.4 GB with headroom for about 8k tokens.

Best quantQ4_K_M
Download size25 GB
Memory needed26.4 GB
Usable fast memory15.5 GB
Fitdoes not fit
Estimated speedno estimate, it does not fit
Commandollama run nemotron-3.5-lightning:30b-a3b-q4_K_M

Smallest hardware that runs it: RTX 3090 24GB at Q4_K_M (partial offload (slower), 26.4 GB needed, 23.5 GB usable, about 49 tok/s (estimate)). Can a RTX 3090 24GB run Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B (MoE)?

A smaller NVIDIA model that fits this hardware: Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0 4B at Q5_K_M (fits in fast memory, 4.5 GB). Can a RX 9070 XT 16GB run Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0 4B?

Open RX 9070 XT 16GB in the checker

Estimates, not benchmarks. Model sizes are ollama.com download sizes; memory needed adds headroom for ~8k tokens of context; speeds are rough figures from memory bandwidth. Data updated 2026-10-23.

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