Nemotron Content Safety Reasoning 4B on NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (5120-core GPU) (24 GB)

Can the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (5120-core GPU) (24 GB) run Nemotron Content Safety Reasoning 4B?

Barely: it runs very slowly

Very slow. At Q6_K it needs about 5.4 GB of 12.0 GB usable and makes one decision in about 2.8 s.

Best quant: Q6_K
Time per decision: 2.8 s
Decisions per second: 0.4/s
Input assumed: 512 tokens
Returns: Reasoned verdict

Best app to run it on the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (5120-core GPU) (24 GB)

On Linux

LM Studio

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, MLX

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Open Nemotron Content Safety Reasoning 4B in LM Studio

llama.cpp Usually the first to support new model architectures.
Ollama Runs the Hugging Face GGUF with ollama run hf.co/…

How we choose: the files published for this model, your operating system and GPU, whether it fits fully in memory, and published speed tests (MLX vs llama.cpp on Apple silicon, vLLM vs llama.cpp vs Ollama on NVIDIA). Details.

Download Nemotron Content Safety Reasoning 4B

Recommended for the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (5120-core GPU) (24 GB): Q6_K. 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 Q6_K 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:Q6_K

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)

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Links checked 1 day ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 77Great quality (A) · 77 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at Q6_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 Very slow: How well it runs on the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (5120-core GPU) (24 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.

PrecisionEditorial precision tier from the model’s published benchmarks, scaled by the quantization or precision used.	34.7 / 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.	25.0 / 25
SpeedTime for one decision against a 100 ms target: reading the input plus any tokens the model writes.	2.8 / 15
ClarityHow easy the answer is to use in code: a probability or score earns the most, written feedback before a score the least.	10.0 / 15
Match score	72.6 / 100

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

Every quantization on the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (5120-core GPU) (24 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q4_K_M`	4.5 GB	12.0 GB	2.0 s	Very slow	74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 71/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	4.9 GB	12.0 GB	2.4 s	Very slow	75Great quality (A) · 75 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	5.4 GB	12.0 GB	2.8 s	Very slow	77Great quality (A) · 77 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	6.4 GB	12.0 GB	3.8 s	Very slow	78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	10.4 GB	12.0 GB	8.1 s	Very slowtight fit	78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 70/100 (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.

Other hardware that runs 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

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.