Nemotron-Cascade-14B-Thinking

Qwen family · 15.0B params

Evidence: 1 sourced run · 1 independent source · first recorded Jul 12, 2026. What these labels mean.

What the Nemotron-Cascade-14B-Thinking numbers mean

The fastest verified result on our board is 35.7 output tok/s on an RTX 3060 x2 at Q4_K_M with a 512-token context. That is about 28.0 ms per generated token — 500 tokens takes roughly 14.0 seconds. Prompt processing on the same record runs at 1140.0 tok/s, so a 2,000-token prompt is read in about 1.8 seconds. Peak VRAM was measured at 15.4 GB.

How much VRAM does Nemotron-Cascade-14B-Thinking need?

Nemotron-Cascade-14B-Thinking has 15.0B parameters. These estimates use the same formula as the VRAM calculator: weights, plus about 15% for a moderate-context KV cache and runtime overhead, plus a small engine floor.

Long contexts and large batches raise the real number — read the smallest card as "possible with a reduced context". Measured throughput is on the benchmark board.

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