What GPU do I need to run nvidia/Nemotron-H-56B-Base-8K?
56.3B parameters, published in BF16. View on Hugging Face
Set up Nemotron-H-56B-Base-8KNemotron-H-56B-Base-8K is published by nvidia on Hugging Face, with 13,844 downloads and 33 likes to date. It's a unlisted-architecture model built for text-generation, published natively in BF16.
VRAM required & cheapest live GPU fit
Required VRAM = weight size at each precision times a flat 1.2 overhead for activations and fragmentation. The KV-cache grows with context and is not in that factor; it is listed per model below where the architecture is published. Full formula and assumptions: methodology.
| Precision | Weight size | Required VRAM | Cheapest live fit | GPUs needed | Est. $/hr (full fit) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BF16 | 104.9 GB | 125.9 GB | AMD MI300X | 1 | $2.63/hr |
| cheaper alt. | RTX A5000 | 6 | $1.06/hr | ||
| FP8 (quantized) | 52.5 GB | 62.9 GB | RTX PRO 6000 WS | 1 | $1.62/hr |
| cheaper alt. | RTX 4000 SFF Ada | 4 | $0.792/hr | ||
| INT4 (quantized) | 26.2 GB | 31.5 GB | RTX A6000 | 1 | $0.363/hr |
| cheaper alt. | RTX 3060 | 3 | $0.330/hr |
A GPU is only matched to a row if its hardware supports that precision, and the primary recommendation is always a single-GPU fit when one exists.
INT4 requires a quantized checkpoint actually published for this model, check its Hugging Face page before relying on this row.
Cheapest way to run Nemotron-H-56B-Base-8K at its published (BF16) precision: 1× AMD MI300X, at $2.63/hr per GPU ($2.63/hr total). Quantizing to FP8 or INT4 (rows above) can cost less, but requires a compatible quantized checkpoint to exist for this model.
Nemotron-H-56B-Base-8K: KV cache by context length
The KV cache is the memory the attention layers hold for every token of context, on top of the weights. It is not part of the flat 1.2x overhead in the table above, grows with context length and with every concurrent request, and is why a long-context deployment needs more VRAM than the table shows.
KV-cache size for Nemotron-H-56B-Base-8K is not published for this architecture, so no figure is shown.
Nemotron-H-56B-Base-8K: common questions
Can Nemotron-H-56B-Base-8K run on a single GPU?
Yes, but not on a desktop card. At BF16 it needs 125.9 GB of VRAM, more than a single 32 GB desktop card holds. The cheapest live single-card fit is a 192.0 GB AMD MI300X at $2.63/hr.
What is the least VRAM Nemotron-H-56B-Base-8K can run in?
31.5 GB, at INT4 (quantized), which fits a 32 GB card, against 125.9 GB at BF16. That row assumes an INT4 checkpoint has actually been published for this model, so check its Hugging Face page before planning around it.
Does quantizing Nemotron-H-56B-Base-8K lower the GPU bill?
Yes. At BF16 the cheapest live fit is one AMD MI300X at $2.63/hr. At INT4 (quantized) it drops to one RTX A6000 at $0.363/hr, provided a quantized checkpoint exists for it.
Weight-to-VRAM math, the fit rules, and how live prices are normalized: full methodology.
More Nemotron-H models
- Nemotron-H-8B-Base-8K (8.1B, BF16)
- Nemotron-H-8B-Reasoning-128K (8.1B, BF16)
Alternatives at this size
Other models for text-generation within about a third of Nemotron-H-56B-Base-8K's 56.3B parameters, from other model lines.
- Qwen-72B (72.3B, BF16)
- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct (70.6B, BF16)
- Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct (49.1B, BF16)
- Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct (41.9B, BF16)
- Hunyuan-A13B-Instruct (80.4B, BF16)
More on Nemotron-H-56B-Base-8K
Fits on a 141 GB GPU at BF16: every model that fits in 141 GB.
Fits on an 80 GB GPU at FP8: every model that fits in 80 GB.
Fits on a 32 GB GPU at INT4: every model that fits in 32 GB.
Related reading: AMD MI300X pricing and specs, How much VRAM you need for LLMs, Serving LLMs with vLLM, vLLM vs TensorRT-LLM vs SGLang, and Best GPU for LLM inference.
