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NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2

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Intelligence Index

Reasoning setting

7.4
Estimated · Artificial Analysis v4.3.2
Context window
131.07K tok

Performance profile

ReasoningRank #89 of 107
57.0%
GPQA Diamond

Capabilities

Context window

Modalities

Measured setting

Reasoning trade-offs

Source (opens in a new tab)
Intelligence Index v4.3.2
ReasoningEstimated
Intelligence Index
7.4

Pricing & access

No API offering listed in our tracked sources.

Run locally

GGUF
Context
Estimated memory

~8.3 GiB

RAM + VRAM

Estimate assumptions

One text chat at the selected context, with a 16-bit cache and app allowance. Operating system and image processing are extra; optimized caches can use less.

16 GiB RAMwithout GPU offload

Memory budgetOne text chat
Weights
6.1 GiB
Context + state
0.3 GiB16-bit cache
App allowance
2 GiB
Download
6.5 GB
Disk space
~13 GB
Get GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Set up in Ollama · Q4_K_M · 8K context

Save the following as Modelfile. The context matches the estimate above.

FROM hf.co/bartowski/nvidia_NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2-GGUF:Q4_K_M
PARAMETER num_ctx 8192

Then run these commands in your terminal:

ollama create llmcurrent-local -f Modelfile
ollama run llmcurrent-local

Ollama import instructions (opens in a new tab) · For LM Studio or Jan, open the app’s model search, enter bartowski/nvidia_NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2-GGUF, choose Q4_K_M, and set context to 8,192 tokens in the app’s model settings. Software links above open each app’s setup guide.

Benchmarks

Full leaderboardSource (opens in a new tab)

Humanity’s Last Exam

Frontier reasoning

NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 · Reasoning#112 of 126

  1. 1Claude Opus 5.5Max61.4%
  2. 2Claude Fable 5.1Max59.1%
  3. 3Gemini 4 ArgonHigh57.1%
  4. 109Granite 4.0 MicroStandard5.0%
  5. 110Phi-4 Multimodal InstructStandard5.0%
  6. 111Llama 4 MaverickStandard4.9%
  7. 112NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2Reasoning4.9%
  8. 113Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B ReasoningReasoning4.8%
  9. 114Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B InstructStandard4.6%
  10. 114Nova MicroStandard4.6%

Peers use their best measured result on this benchmark.