Nemotron-Labs-TwoTower-30B-A3B-Base-BF16: hardware requirements
Nemotron-Labs-TwoTower-30B-A3B-Base-BF16 needs about 46 GB of memory at Q4 quantization — a 38 GB download plus room for context and overhead. That fits a machine with 64GB RAM.
This is a mixture-of-experts model. Only a fraction of its 63B parameters are used for each token, so it runs faster than its size suggests — but all of it still has to fit in memory. The speed is that of a small model; the memory requirement is that of a large one. More on this →
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Download sizes by quantization
Lower quantization means a smaller file and less memory, at some cost to quality. Q4_K_M is the usual starting point. What is this?
| Quant | Download | RAM @ 4K | RAM @ 32K | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4_K_Mrecommended | 38 GB | 46 GB | 46 GB | estimated |
| Q5_K_M | 45 GB | 53 GB | 53 GB | estimated |
| Q6_K | 52 GB | 61 GB | 61 GB | estimated |
| Q8_0 | 67 GB | 78 GB | 78 GB | estimated |
| BF16 | 126 GB | 145 GB | 145 GB | estimated |
“Measured” sizes are read from published GGUF files. “Estimated” sizes are derived from the parameter count and are typically within a few percent. The RAM columns add the context cache and runtime overhead to the download size.