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Can the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB run Nemotron Nano 9B v2?

80 ptsGreat (A) · 80 of 100 points: Model quality 25.7/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 14.6/15, Memory use 15.0/15

Yes, it runs well

Runs well. At Q4_K_M it needs about 6.6 GB of 8.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 38.0 tok/s.

Best quant
Q4_K_M
Generation speed
38.0 tok/s
Prompt processing
3,571 tok/s
First token (1K prompt)
0.3 s
Largest safe context
94K

Download Nemotron Nano 9B v2

Recommended for the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB: 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/bartowski/nvidia_NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/bartowski/nvidia_NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2 (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Official repo · GitHub

Reference code, inference scripts and docs from NVIDIA. The weights themselves download from Hugging Face.

github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Nemotron (opens in a new tab)

git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Nemotron

NVIDIA’s Nemotron repo with recipes for the whole family.

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

How the A grade is scored

Every result gets up to 100 points from four parts. The points decide the letter grade.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.25.7 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when everything sits in GPU or unified memory; fewer when part spills to system RAM.25.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.14.6 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.15.0 / 15
Total80.3 / 10080 ptsGreat (A) · 80 of 100 points: Model quality 25.7/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 14.6/15, Memory use 15.0/15

Grade scale: S 85+ · A 72+ · B 58+ · C 42+ · D 25+ · F under 25 points.

Every quantization on the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Fit Grade · points Download
Q2_K 4.7 GB 8.0 GB 62.5 tok/s Runs well 72 ptsGreat (A) · 72 of 100 points: Model quality 18.9/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 13.5/15 GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q3_K_M 5.5 GB 8.0 GB 49.2 tok/s Runs well 77 ptsGreat (A) · 77 of 100 points: Model quality 22.7/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q4_K_M 6.6 GB 8.0 GB 38.0 tok/s Runs well 80 ptsGreat (A) · 80 of 100 points: Model quality 25.7/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 14.6/15, Memory use 15.0/15 GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q5_K_M 7.4 GB 8.0 GB 31.4 tok/s Tight fit 78 ptsGreat (A) · 78 of 100 points: Model quality 26.2/45, Memory fit 24.0/25, Speed 13.3/15, Memory use 15.0/15 GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q6_K 8.4 GB 8.0 GB 22.3 tok/s Runs with offload 62 ptsGood (B) · 62 of 100 points: Model quality 26.7/45, Memory fit 10.0/25, Speed 11.2/15, Memory use 15.0/15 GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q8_0 10.6 GB 8.0 GB 10.5 tok/s Runs with offload 59 ptsGood (B) · 59 of 100 points: Model quality 27.0/45, Memory fit 10.0/25, Speed 7.7/15, Memory use 15.0/15 GGUF (opens in a new tab)
F16 18.9 GB 8.0 GB 3.1 tok/s Heavy offload 50 ptsUsable (C) · 50 of 100 points: Model quality 27.0/45, Memory fit 4.0/25, Speed 4.1/15, Memory use 15.0/15 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.

Other hardware that runs it

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.