NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B BF16 locally
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B BF16 is an open-weight LLM from the Nemotron family with 120B parameters. Main use: chat, RAG and general assistance. Detected minimum hardware: NVIDIA A100 80GB (80 GB).
Available quantizations
GGUF weightsAcceptable. Good compromise when VRAM is limited.
Good quality. Sweet spot for size and precision.
Near-FP16 quality. Comfortable for production.
Reference precision. Maximum quality, doubled VRAM.
Compatible GPUs
12 single-GPUGPUs that can run NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B BF16 on a single card, ranked by VRAM headroom.
Recommended multi-GPU rigs
2x / 4x consumer GPUsFor NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B BF16 at higher quantization or with more context, a multi-GPU rig gives more headroom.
Recommended rig
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B BF16 with Ubuntu, vLLM, Open WebUI and the model already downloaded.
Similar models
VRAM estimates: parameters x bits/8 plus margin. Real performance varies by engine, context length and batch size.
sync: 2026-05-12