Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B on Arduino UNO Q (2 GB)

Can the Arduino UNO Q (2 GB) run Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B?

No, it doesn’t fit

No. Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B needs about 4.0 GB even at Q2_K; the Arduino UNO Q (2 GB) has 1.2 GB usable.

Download Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B

Recommended: Q2_K. Every other quantization has its own download link in the table below.

Quickest · Ollama

One command downloads a ready-to-run version and starts a chat.

Get Ollama at ollama.com/download (opens in a new tab) · model page (opens in a new tab)

ollama run nemotron-3.5-bolt:e4b

Quantized files · GGUF

Works in LM Studio, llama.cpp, Jan and Ollama. No sign-in needed.

Download the Q2_K (UD-Q2_K_XL) file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/unsloth/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-E4B-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/unsloth/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-E4B-GGUF:UD-Q2_K_XL

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from NVIDIA, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-E4B-BF16 (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Links checked 3 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 49Fair quality (C) · 49 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 6/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at Q2_K, from its editorial quality tier scaled by the quantization or precision. It’s the same on any hardware that runs this variant. Scale: A+ 85+ · A 70+ · B 55+ · C 40+ · D under 40.
Runs Won't run: How well it runs on the Arduino UNO Q (2 GB): speed, capped by how well it fits in memory. Runs great: 30+ tokens/s (or near the image, video or decision speed target) · Runs well: 10+ tokens/s · Slow: 3+ tokens/s · Very slow: under 3 · Won’t run: doesn’t fit even with offload. A tight fit or RAM offload caps it at Runs well; heavy offload caps it at Slow.

Match score

To order lists, each result also gets a match score out of 100 from four parts. It favors the most capable model that still runs well.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.	6.6 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when the model fits in the share of unified memory the GPU can use; fewer when it goes past that limit.	0.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.	0.0 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.	0.0 / 15
Match score	6.6 / 100

The match score orders results; it is not shown as a grade. Quality and Runs are the two ratings in the tables.

It doesn’t fit, so only a reduced share of the quality points counts and fit, speed and memory use score zero.

Every quantization on the Arduino UNO Q (2 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q2_K`	4.0 GB	1.2 GB	—	Won't run	49Fair quality (C) · 49 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 6/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (UD-Q2_K_XL) (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	4.8 GB	1.2 GB	—	Won't run	58Good quality (B) · 58 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 7/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (UD-Q3_K_XL) (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	5.7 GB	1.2 GB	—	Won't run	66Good quality (B) · 66 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 8/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (UD-Q4_K_XL) (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	6.5 GB	1.2 GB	—	Won't run	67Good quality (B) · 67 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 9/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (UD-Q5_K_XL) (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	7.4 GB	1.2 GB	—	Won't run	69Good quality (B) · 69 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 9/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (UD-Q6_K_XL) (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	9.3 GB	1.2 GB	—	Won't run	70Great quality (A) · 70 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 9/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	16.8 GB	1.2 GB	—	Won't run	70Great quality (A) · 70 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 9/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab) Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Memory figures assume 8K of context. Longer conversations or documents grow the KV cache.

Hardware that can run it

70Great quality (A) · 70 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX F16 · 52.9 tok/s · Runs great
70Great quality (A) · 70 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Intel Arc B580 Q8_0 · 48.4 tok/s · Runs great
70Great quality (A) · 70 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB Q8_0 · 50.0 tok/s · Runs great
70Great quality (A) · 70 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 F16 · 59.9 tok/s · Runs great
70Great quality (A) · 70 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER Q8_0 · 70.0 tok/s · Runs great
70Great quality (A) · 70 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 F16 · 64.5 tok/s · Runs great

Models that do run on the Arduino UNO Q (2 GB)

2Basic quality (D) · 2 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 56/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Falcon-H1 Tiny 90M Instruct Q3_K_M · 42.3 tok/s
2Basic quality (D) · 2 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 55/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. SmolLM2 135M Instruct Q2_K · 37.2 tok/s
1Basic quality (D) · 1 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 55/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. SmolLM 135M Instruct Q2_K · 37.2 tok/s
7Basic quality (D) · 7 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 54/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. LFM2.5 230M Q2_K · 21.0 tok/s
9Basic quality (D) · 9 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 53/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. LFM2.5 350M Q2_K · 13.8 tok/s

Quick answers

How much memory does Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B need on the Arduino UNO Q 2GB?

Even at Q2_K it needs about 4.0 GB; the Arduino UNO Q 2GB has 1.2 GB usable.

What can the Arduino UNO Q 2GB run instead?

Falcon-H1 Tiny 90M Instruct, SmolLM2 135M Instruct and SmolLM 135M Instruct run best on it; the page lists more, each with its speed.

What hardware can run Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B?

RX 7900 XTX 24GB, Arc B580 12GB and RTX 3060 12GB run it; the page lists more, each with its speed.

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.