// NVIDIA Nemotron · Embedding
Nemotron-3.5-Embed-8B-BF16: VRAM & local deployment
8.38B parameters. About 6.1 GB at 4-bit and 18.9 GB at BF16.
released 2026-10-07licence: Commercial OKmemory figures are estimates
01Specs
| Publisher | NVIDIA · nvidia |
|---|---|
| Family / series | NVIDIA Nemotron · Nemotron-3.5-Embed |
| Type | Embedding (visual-document-retrieval) |
| Parameters | 8.38B Source: counted from official safetensors weights |
| Released weights | BF16 · 16.8 GBdownload |
| Licence | OpenMDW-1.1 · Commercial OKPermissive licence (Apache-2.0 / MIT / CC-BY / OpenMDW): commercial use allowed. |
| Released | 2026-10-07 (Hugging Face repo created) |
02How much VRAM it needs (estimate)
Embedding models are small; memory grows with batch size and sequence length.
| Precision | Weights | Weights + overhead | Smallest GPU | Mac |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BF16 / FP16 (original) | 16.8 GB | 18.9 GB | RTX 4090 24GB | Mac 36GB |
| FP8 / INT8 / Q8_0 | 8.9 GB | 10.3 GB | 12GB GPU | Mac 24GB |
| 4-bit (Q4_K_M / AWQ / GPTQ-Int4) | 5.1 GB | 6.1 GB | 8GB GPU | Mac 16GB |
Bits per weight: BF16 16, FP8 8.5, 4-bit 4.85. “Fits” = total ≤ 90% of memory; Mac GPU can use ~2/3 of unified memory (≤36GB) or ~3/4 (larger). For MoE, all experts must be in memory, so size by total parameters. Method →
03How to run it
Only runtimes the publisher or the runtime’s official library names for this model.
- vLLM — mentioned in the official model card
- Transformers — mentioned in the official model card
- Sentence Transformers — mentioned in the official model card
04Official repositories & quantised builds
1 official repo(s) from nvidia.
05Other NVIDIA Nemotron models
All 62 →| Model | Params | 4-bit total | Released |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nemotron-3.5-Embed-1B-BF16 · same series | 1.55B | 1.5 GB | 2026-10-07 |
| NVIDIA-Nemotron-Labs-Dory1.0-4B-BF16 | 3.98B | 3.6 GB | 2026-10-16 |
| Nemotron-3.5-Rerank-8B-BF16 | 8.38B | 6.1 GB | 2026-10-15 |
| NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL-120B-A12B-BF16 | 124.5B / 12B | 83.5 GB | 2026-10-12 |
| NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-74B-A9B-BF16 | 74.9B / 9B | 50.4 GB | 2026-10-09 |
| Nemotron-3.5-Parse | 631M | 1.1 GB | 2026-09-03 |
| Nemotron-3-Labs-Ultra-Math-RL | 550B / 55B | 367 GB | 2026-09-02 |
| NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16 | 31.6B / 3B | 21.6 GB | 2026-08-01 |
| NVIDIA-NemotronLabs-VoiceChat-11B | 11.1B | 7.9 GB | 2026-07-29 |
06Sources
Data checked 2026-10-21. Parameters, context and licence are copied from the official repository; memory figures are our estimates.