Yes — with 44.0 GB to spare

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B at Q4_K_M fits your Instinct MI210 entirely on the GPU at 8K context, at an estimated 212 tokens per second. There is room for its full 256K window.

Fully on GPU 8K context Q4_K_M · 17.8 GB OpenMDW-1.1 Released 11 Aug 2026 New this month

Mamba-2 + MoE hybrid built for the execution layer of agents: only 6 attention blocks, so the KV cache is almost free. Weights, data and recipe all open.

What hardware do I need for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B? →

The VRAM budget

weights 17.8 GB
Weights 17.8 GB KV cache @ 8K 0.05 GB Runtime overhead 0.6 GB Free 44.0 GB of 62.4 GB

Quantisation ladder

QuantWeightsTotal @ 8KMax contextTok/sQualityFit
Q8_0 31.3 GB 31.9 GB 256K 120 −0.1% ppl Long context
Q6_K 24.1 GB 24.8 GB 256K 156 −0.4% ppl Long context
Q5_K_M 20.9 GB 21.5 GB 256K 181 −0.8% ppl Long context
Q4_K_M 17.8 GB 18.4 GB 256K 212 −1.9% ppl Recommended
Q3_K_M 14.4 GB 15.0 GB 256K 262 −5.4% ppl Long context
Q2_K 12.3 GB 13.0 GB 256K 306 −15% ppl Long context

Quality is the published perplexity delta against f16 weights. Max context assumes an f16 KV cache; q8_0 roughly doubles it. Only 6 of its 52 blocks keep a per-token KV cache; the rest are linear-attention, Mamba or convolution blocks with a fixed-size state.

How to run it

terminal
$ ollama pull nemotron-3.5-lightning:30b-a3b
$ OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH=8192 \
    ollama run nemotron-3.5-lightning:30b-a3b

The default. One binary, a model registry, an OpenAI-compatible port. More on Ollama.

01Download is 17.8 GB. Keep it on an SSD — a first load off a spinning disk takes minutes.
02Close anything else holding VRAM. A browser with hardware acceleration can sit on 1–2 GB.
03There is room to go to the model's full 256K context on this card.
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