# NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-BF16 GPU requirements

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-BF16 has 124B parameters. To serve it, plan for about 297 GB of GPU memory in 16-bit, 148 GB in 8-bit or 74 GB in 4-bit, including about 20% for the KV cache and activations.

It is a mixture of experts: 512 experts, 22 of them active for each token. All of them stay in GPU memory, so plan memory for all 124B parameters.

[Deploy it on Arrakis](/console/#/models?model=nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-BF16).

## What it takes to serve it

| Precision | Memory and the smallest setup |
|---|---|
| 16-bit | 297 GB: 4 × [H100](/gpus/h100.html.md), from $6.60 per hour for all 4 |
| 8-bit | 148 GB: one [B200](/gpus/b200.html.md), from $6.79 per GPU-hour |
| 4-bit | 74 GB: one [H100](/gpus/h100.html.md) or [A100](/gpus/a100.html.md), H100 from $1.65 per GPU-hour |

## What it takes to fine-tune it

| Method | Memory and the smallest setup |
|---|---|
| QLoRA | 87 GB: one [RTX PRO 6000](/gpus/rtx-pro-6000.html.md), from $1.90 per GPU-hour |
| LoRA | 297 GB: 4 × [H100](/gpus/h100.html.md), from $6.60 per hour for all 4 |
| Full fine-tuning | 1,978 GB: 8 × [B300](/gpus/b300.html.md), from $36.80 per hour for all 8 |

## About the model

| | |
|---|---|
| Parameters | `124B` |
| Active for each token | `12B` |
| Experts | `512` |
| Experts for each token | `22` |
| Context window (tokens) | `262,144` |
| Published in | `BF16` |
| License | `other` |
| Released | `2026-03-10` |
| Weights | [nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-BF16](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-BF16) |

## Serve it yourself

```
vllm serve nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-BF16 --tensor-parallel-size 4
```

## Questions

**How much GPU memory does NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-BF16 need?** To serve it, about 297 GB in 16-bit, 148 GB in 8-bit, 74 GB in 4-bit, including about 20% for the KV cache and activations. To fine-tune it, about 87 GB with QLoRA, 297 GB with LoRA and 1,978 GB for full fine-tuning with Adam, before activations.

**Can I run NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-BF16 on one GPU?** Yes, quantized. In 8-bit it needs about 148 GB, which fits on one B200. In 16-bit it needs 4 H100 GPUs.

**What does it cost to run NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-BF16?** In 16-bit it needs 4 H100 GPUs; in 4-bit, one H100 or A100. Each setup on this page shows the lowest price per GPU-hour on Arrakis right now, and you pay by the hour from a prepaid balance.

**How do I deploy NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-BF16 on Arrakis?** Open Models in the Arrakis console, paste nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-BF16, choose vLLM, SGLang or llama.cpp, and rent a GPU it fits on. You get an OpenAI-compatible endpoint with its own API key, and root SSH to the machine.


More models: [/models](/models.html.md).