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 MacBook M4 Pro 24GB has 18 GB usable, so it doesn't fit, even at its smallest quantization.
| Quantization | File size | Memory | Generation | First token | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4_K_M | 25.3 GB | Doesn't fit | Won't run | — | — |
| Q8_0 | 35.0 GB | Doesn't fit | Won't run | — | — |
| FP16 | 65.8 GB | Doesn't fit | Won't run | — | — |
All models on the MacBook M4 Pro 24GB · Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B on all hardware
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.