Developing Nemotron 3.5 Lightning NVFP4 with QAD Using NVIDIA Model Optimizer
17 August 2026 at 18:12
Teams customize their models to hit their targets for latency, speed, memory, and compute. With the open NVIDIA Nemotron family of models, developers can find the right-sized model for their needs. The new Nemotron 3.5 Lightning NVFP4 checkpoint, for example, preserves accuracy while unlocking up to 4x faster throughput. Itβs compressed down to 22 GB from the 66 GB full precision checkpointβ¦