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NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-NVFP4: GPU memory to fine-tune

Fine-tuning NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-NVFP4 at batch 1 and 2048 tokens takes about 2.39 TB of GPU memory for a full fine-tune (at least 20 x H200 sharded), and 264 GB with LoRA r=16 on a bf16 base (at least 3 x H200 sharded). Estimated from the model's structure, not measured. What fits on which card.

Reconstructed from its own config.json with no weights read. 726K downloads on Hugging Face.

Our count against the checkpoint

The left number comes from the graph. The right one is the number of scalars in the published weight files. Nothing on this page was tuned to make them agree.

Derived from structure
124B
123,611,147,264 parameters
In the published checkpoint
67.23B
67,228,556,288 scalars · safetensors.total, read 2026-08-24
Delta
+83.9%

quantized This checkpoint is stored quantized (modelopt). The tensor count in the file counts stored elements under a packing scheme, not logical parameters, so the two numbers below are not measuring the same thing in either direction.

What it costs to run

Cost is a roofline estimate on the priced GPU for 10 epochs at batch 32, 2048 tokens over 50,000 samples (assumed; no dataset attached).

Layers
278
Will it forward-pass
Yes
Priced on
A10G (24GB)
Est. one run
$2804.60

Memory: what fits on which card

Largest batch per card. Training is sized at 2048 tokens per sample, serving at 4096 tokens per sequence.

Full fine-tune, batch 1 at 2048 tokens
2.39 TB
LoRA r=16, batch 1 at 2048 tokens
264 GB
Serve: bf16 weights
247 GB
Serve: KV cache, 4096 tokens
34 MB
Serve: recurrent state
86 MB
CardFull fine-tuneLoRA r=16Serve bf16, 4096 tokens
T4 16 GBdoes not fit at batch 1does not fit at batch 1does not fit at batch 1
L4 24 GBdoes not fit at batch 1does not fit at batch 1does not fit at batch 1
A100 40 GBdoes not fit at batch 1does not fit at batch 1does not fit at batch 1
A100 / H100 80 GBdoes not fit at batch 1does not fit at batch 1does not fit at batch 1
H200 141 GBdoes not fit at batch 1does not fit at batch 1does not fit at batch 1
Sharded, by memory aloneat least 20 x H200 or 35 x 80 GBat least 3 x H200 or 4 x 80 GBat least 3 x H200 or 4 x 80 GB

Training: 2048 tokens per sample (2048, or the model's context when shorter; the structure table is at the config's maximum, 262144), AdamW with bf16 autocast, SDPA attention (no score matrix stored), 1.15x headroom on every card. Full fine-tune holds weights, gradients and optimizer state (1.2 x 16 bytes per parameter) plus activations. LoRA is r=16 on every linear layer but the head, base frozen in bf16 (2 bytes per parameter), adapters at full AdamW state, same activations. A two-card split is a contiguous layer cut (pipeline parallel), computed only where one card cannot hold batch 1. "Sharded" is a floor: the batch-1 peak with headroom divided across cards as if it split perfectly evenly (FSDP / ZeRO-3 for training, tensor parallel for serving), with no communication buffers counted. Serving: bf16 weights plus the KV cache of 4096 tokens per sequence plus the fixed recurrent state of the SSM / linear-attention layers; prefill working set, CUDA context and framework reserve not counted.

These are estimates from the graph, not measurements. Against measured runs, held out by architecture, the estimate flagged 113 of the 131 jobs that did not fit their card and said "fits" on the other 18. Every measured run.

Structure

281 nodes. Output shapes are propagated from the input shape, batch dimension excluded, at 262144 tokens: the config's maximum context, not the 2048 the memory above is sized at.

LayerTypeOutput shape
1InputInput1 × 262144
2EmbeddingEmbedding1 × 262144 × 4096
3RMSNorm_1_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
4Mamba_1Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
5Add_1_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
6RMSNorm_2_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
7MoE_2Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
8Add_2_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
9RMSNorm_3_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
10Mamba_3Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
11Add_3_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
12RMSNorm_4_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
13MoE_4Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
14Add_4_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
15RMSNorm_5_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
16Mamba_5Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
17Add_5_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
18RMSNorm_6_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
19MoE_6Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
20Add_6_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
21RMSNorm_7_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
22Mamba_7Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
23Add_7_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
24RMSNorm_8_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
25Attention_8Grouped Query Attn1 × 262144 × 4096
26Add_8_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
27RMSNorm_9_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
28MoE_9Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
29Add_9_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
30RMSNorm_10_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
31Mamba_10Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
32Add_10_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
33RMSNorm_11_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
34MoE_11Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
35Add_11_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
36RMSNorm_12_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
37Mamba_12Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
38Add_12_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
39RMSNorm_13_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
40MoE_13Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
41Add_13_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
42RMSNorm_14_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
43Mamba_14Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
44Add_14_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
45RMSNorm_15_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
46MoE_15Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
47Add_15_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
48RMSNorm_16_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
49Mamba_16Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
50Add_16_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
51RMSNorm_17_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
52Attention_17Grouped Query Attn1 × 262144 × 4096
53Add_17_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
54RMSNorm_18_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
55MoE_18Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
56Add_18_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
57RMSNorm_19_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
58Mamba_19Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
59Add_19_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
60RMSNorm_20_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
61MoE_20Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
62Add_20_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
63RMSNorm_21_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
64Mamba_21Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
65Add_21_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
66RMSNorm_22_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
67MoE_22Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
68Add_22_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
69RMSNorm_23_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
70Mamba_23Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
71Add_23_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
72RMSNorm_24_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
73MoE_24Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
74Add_24_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
75RMSNorm_25_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
76Mamba_25Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
77Add_25_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
78RMSNorm_26_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
79Attention_26Grouped Query Attn1 × 262144 × 4096
80Add_26_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
81RMSNorm_27_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
82MoE_27Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
83Add_27_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
84RMSNorm_28_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
85Mamba_28Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
86Add_28_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
87RMSNorm_29_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
88MoE_29Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
89Add_29_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
90RMSNorm_30_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
91Mamba_30Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
92Add_30_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
93RMSNorm_31_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
94MoE_31Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
95Add_31_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
96RMSNorm_32_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
97Mamba_32Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
98Add_32_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
99RMSNorm_33_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
100MoE_33Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
101Add_33_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
102RMSNorm_34_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
103Mamba_34Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
104Add_34_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
105RMSNorm_35_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
106MoE_35Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
107Add_35_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
108RMSNorm_36_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
109Mamba_36Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
110Add_36_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
111RMSNorm_37_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
112Attention_37Grouped Query Attn1 × 262144 × 4096
113Add_37_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
114RMSNorm_38_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
115MoE_38Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
116Add_38_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
117RMSNorm_39_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
118Mamba_39Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
119Add_39_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
120RMSNorm_40_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
121MoE_40Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
122Add_40_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
123RMSNorm_41_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
124Mamba_41Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
125Add_41_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
126RMSNorm_42_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
127MoE_42Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
128Add_42_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
129RMSNorm_43_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
130Mamba_43Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
131Add_43_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
132RMSNorm_44_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
133MoE_44Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
134Add_44_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
135RMSNorm_45_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
136Mamba_45Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
137Add_45_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
138RMSNorm_46_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
139MoE_46Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
140Add_46_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
141RMSNorm_47_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
142Mamba_47Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
143Add_47_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
144RMSNorm_48_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
145Attention_48Grouped Query Attn1 × 262144 × 4096
146Add_48_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
147RMSNorm_49_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
148MoE_49Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
149Add_49_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
150RMSNorm_50_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
151Mamba_50Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
152Add_50_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
153RMSNorm_51_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
154MoE_51Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
155Add_51_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
156RMSNorm_52_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
157Mamba_52Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
158Add_52_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
159RMSNorm_53_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
160MoE_53Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
161Add_53_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
162RMSNorm_54_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
163Mamba_54Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
164Add_54_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
165RMSNorm_55_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
166MoE_55Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
167Add_55_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
168RMSNorm_56_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
169Mamba_56Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
170Add_56_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
171RMSNorm_57_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
172MoE_57Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
173Add_57_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
174RMSNorm_58_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
175Mamba_58Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
176Add_58_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
177RMSNorm_59_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
178Attention_59Grouped Query Attn1 × 262144 × 4096
179Add_59_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
180RMSNorm_60_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
181MoE_60Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
182Add_60_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
183RMSNorm_61_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
184Mamba_61Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
185Add_61_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
186RMSNorm_62_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
187MoE_62Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
188Add_62_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
189RMSNorm_63_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
190Mamba_63Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
191Add_63_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
192RMSNorm_64_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
193MoE_64Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
194Add_64_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
195RMSNorm_65_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
196Mamba_65Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
197Add_65_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
198RMSNorm_66_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
199MoE_66Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
200Add_66_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
201RMSNorm_67_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
202Mamba_67Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
203Add_67_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
204RMSNorm_68_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
205MoE_68Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
206Add_68_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
207RMSNorm_69_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
208Mamba_69Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
209Add_69_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
210RMSNorm_70_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
211Attention_70Grouped Query Attn1 × 262144 × 4096
212Add_70_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
213RMSNorm_71_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
214MoE_71Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
215Add_71_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
216RMSNorm_72_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
217Mamba_72Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
218Add_72_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
219RMSNorm_73_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
220MoE_73Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
221Add_73_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
222RMSNorm_74_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
223Mamba_74Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
224Add_74_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
225RMSNorm_75_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
226MoE_75Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
227Add_75_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
228RMSNorm_76_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
229Mamba_76Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
230Add_76_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
231RMSNorm_77_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
232MoE_77Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
233Add_77_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
234RMSNorm_78_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
235Mamba_78Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
236Add_78_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
237RMSNorm_79_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
238Attention_79Grouped Query Attn1 × 262144 × 4096
239Add_79_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
240RMSNorm_80_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
241MoE_80Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
242Add_80_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
243RMSNorm_81_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
244Mamba_81Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
245Add_81_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
246RMSNorm_82_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
247MoE_82Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
248Add_82_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
249RMSNorm_83_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
250Mamba_83Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
251Add_83_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
252RMSNorm_84_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
253MoE_84Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
254Add_84_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
255RMSNorm_85_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
256Mamba_85Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
257Add_85_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
258RMSNorm_86_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
259MoE_86Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
260Add_86_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
261RMSNorm_87_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
262Mamba_87Mamba-2 (SSD)1 × 262144 × 4096
263Add_87_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
264RMSNorm_88_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
265MoE_88Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
266Add_88_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
267MTP_1_HiddenNormRMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
268MTP_1_EmbeddingNormRMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
269MTP_1_ConcatConcatenate1 × 262144 × 8192
270MTP_1_ProjectionLinear1 × 262144 × 4096
271RMSNorm_MTP_1_1RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
272Attention_MTP_1Grouped Query Attn1 × 262144 × 4096
273Add_MTP_1_attnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
274RMSNorm_MTP_1_2RMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
275MoE_MTP_1Shared-Expert MoE1 × 262144 × 4096
276Add_MTP_1_ffnAdd1 × 262144 × 4096
277MTP_1_NormRMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
278Final_RMSNormRMSNorm1 × 262144 × 4096
279LM_HeadLinear1 × 262144 × 131072
280OutputOutput1 × 262144 × 131072
281MTP_1_OutputOutput1 × 262144 × 4096

What the verifier says

warn9 attention layer(s) present but no positional encoding found. Attention is permutation-invariant, without position information the model cannot distinguish token order. Fix: Add a PositionalEncoding (sinusoidal) or RoPE layer before the first attention layer.
attention-no-pe
infoAt 9 stacked attention layers, residual-branch outputs add up; unscaled init lets activation variance grow with depth. GPT-2/LLaMA-family models scale the residual projections by depth (N(0, 0.02 / √(2L))). Fix: Scale residual output projections by depth: nn.init.normal_(w, std=0.02 / math.sqrt(2 * n_layers))
deep-attention-default-init

What changed upstream

The change tracker follows nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-NVFP4: every revision it has read, what changed in the config, tokenizer, chat template or weights between them, and an OSV advisory per change.

Do this to your own model

Same numbers, on a model in your repo, in one command. No account.

pip install neurarch-trace
neurarch-trace nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-NVFP4 --plan --share

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NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-NVFP4
31.58B derived · +73.1% against the checkpoint
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-BF16
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