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NE What hardware do you need to run Nemotron 3 Nano 4B?

Nemotron 3 Nano 4B needs about 3.9 GB to run at Q4_K_M, so the lightest hardware that runs it is iPhone 15 Pro. 40 of 40 devices tested can run it.

Needs (Q4_K_M)
~3.9 GB
Devices that run it
40
Too small
0
Lightest that runs it
~4.5 GB
Recommended Q4_K_M
8GB RAM Laptop (CPU/iGPU only) Yes

Runs at Q4_K_M using ~3.9 GB of ~5 GB usable.

What kind of hardware runs Nemotron 3 Nano 4B

Of the 40 devices that run it, here is the split by hardware class.

9 discrete GPUs 14 Macs 3 laptops 14 phones

Hardware that runs Nemotron 3 Nano 4B

Ranked by usable memory, lightest first. Prices are approximate street prices for the device itself (a GPU is the card alone; a Mac is the whole machine). Tok/s is a bandwidth estimate; see methodology.

Compatible devices 40 total

See the full Nemotron 3 Nano 4B memory breakdown, or compare it against other models.

Sources

Memory at Q4_K_M (3.9 GB = 2.64 GB weights + KV cache + overhead), validated 2026-08-03. See methodology.