Nemotron Content Safety Reasoning 4B on Apple iPhone 17 Pro / 17 Pro Max

Can the Apple iPhone 17 Pro / 17 Pro Max run Nemotron Content Safety Reasoning 4B?

No, it doesn’t fit (no mobile app for it)

No. Nemotron Content Safety Reasoning 4B needs about 3.5 GB even at Q4_K_M; the Apple iPhone 17 Pro / 17 Pro Max has 7.2 GB usable.

Download Nemotron Content Safety Reasoning 4B

Recommended: Q4_K_M. Every other quantization has its own download link in the table below.

Quantized files · GGUF

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

Download the Q4_K_M file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/DevQuasar/nvidia.Nemotron-Content-Safety-Reasoning-4B-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/DevQuasar/nvidia.Nemotron-Content-Safety-Reasoning-4B-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/nvidia/Nemotron-Content-Safety-Reasoning-4B (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Links checked 2 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 10/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at Q4_K_M, 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 runno mobile app for it: How well it runs on the Apple iPhone 17 Pro / 17 Pro Max: 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.

PrecisionEditorial precision tier from the model’s published benchmarks, scaled by the quantization or precision used.	10.0 / 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
SpeedTime for one decision against a 100 ms target: reading the input plus any tokens the model writes.	0.0 / 15
ClarityHow easy the answer is to use in code: a probability or score earns the most, written feedback before a score the least.	0.0 / 15
Match score	10.0 / 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 Apple iPhone 17 Pro / 17 Pro Max

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q4_K_M`	3.5 GB	7.2 GB	—	Won't runno mobile app for it	74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 10/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	3.9 GB	7.2 GB	—	Won't runno mobile app for it	75Great quality (A) · 75 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 10/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	4.4 GB	7.2 GB	—	Won't runno mobile app for it	77Great quality (A) · 77 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 10/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	5.4 GB	7.2 GB	—	Won't runno mobile app for it	78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 10/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	9.5 GB	7.2 GB	—	Won't runno mobile app for it	78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 10/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab) Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Times are for one request with a 512-token input and about 160 tokens written. Batching servers process many requests at once.

Hardware that can run it

74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 76/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Q4_K_M · 341 ms · Runs well
74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 76/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Q4_K_M · 346 ms · Runs well
75Great quality (A) · 75 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 83/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA B200 Q5_K_M · 108 ms · Runs great
74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 82/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Instinct MI350X Q4_K_M · 111 ms · Runs great
74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 81/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip Q4_K_M · 121 ms · Runs great
74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 81/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Instinct MI325X Q4_K_M · 134 ms · Runs well

Models that do run on the Apple iPhone 17 Pro / 17 Pro Max

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.