How fast will Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B feel on the H100 80GB (cloud)?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B on the H100 80GB (cloud)

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B is a 31.58B-parameter mixture-of-experts model (3B active per token). At Q4_K_M it needs about 26.0 GB of memory. The H100 80GB (cloud) has 74 GB usable, so it fits entirely in memory. Expect about 608 tokens/sec (292–924), with the first token after 0.3 s for a short prompt. This estimate is interpolated from benchmarks of similar setups.

Speed by quantization

QuantizationFile sizeMemoryGenerationFirst tokenSource
Q4_K_M25.3 GBFits608 tok/s0.3 sDerived
Q8_035.0 GBFits439 tok/s0.3 sDerived
FP1665.8 GBFits233 tok/s0.3 sDerived

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B on other hardware

Other models on the H100 80GB (cloud)

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Estimates for a short prompt on a single device. Measured numbers come from community benchmarks (r/LocalLLaMA, localscore.ai and more); others are derived from similar setups or projected from specs. Open source on GitHub.