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Reviewed October 2026

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B

Smallest of the Nemotron reasoning trio. NAS-optimized for inference efficiency on RTX hardware.

License: Llama 3.1 Community License·Released Apr 8, 2025·Context: 131,072 tokens

Overview

Smallest of the Nemotron reasoning trio. NAS-optimized for inference efficiency on RTX hardware.

Family & lineage

How this model relates to others in its lineage. Family members share architecture and training-data roots; parent / children edges record direct distillation or fine-tune relationships.

Family siblings (nemotron-llama)

Strengths

  • RTX-optimized
  • Reasoning at 8B

Weaknesses

  • NVIDIA license terms

Quantization variants

Each quantization trades model quality for file size and VRAM. Q4_K_M is the most popular starting point.

QuantizationFile sizeVRAM required
Q4_K_M4.9 GB6 GB

Get the model

HuggingFace

Original weights

huggingface.co/nvidia/Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Nano-8B-v1

Source repository — direct quantization required.

Hardware that runs this

Cards with enough VRAM for at least one quantization of Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B.

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Frequently asked

What's the minimum VRAM to run Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B?

6GB of VRAM is enough to run Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B at the Q4_K_M quantization (file size 4.9 GB). Higher-quality quantizations need more.

Can I use Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B commercially?

Yes — Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B ships under the Llama 3.1 Community License, which permits commercial use. Always read the license text before deployment.

What's the context length of Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B?

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B supports a context window of 131,072 tokens (about 131K).

Source: huggingface.co/nvidia/Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Nano-8B-v1

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