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NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

Model evaluation

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

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NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4) 1330.6 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4) · 95% interval 1325.3–1335.8 · 26,056 votes · 2026-11-06

Recorded results

Only the same benchmark, version, workload, scenario and unit share a row. Missing results are not zero. System results include the full submitted hardware and software configuration.

Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-11-06 · rating

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

1,365.20 rating

Confidence interval: 1,351.27 – 1,379.13

2046 votes

Nov 6, 2026

Category: chinese
Evaluated configuration: NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-11-06 · rating

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

1,382.08 rating

Confidence interval: 1,373.77 – 1,390.39

6488 votes

Nov 6, 2026

Category: coding
Evaluated configuration: NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-11-06 · rating

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

1,261.44 rating

Confidence interval: 1,251.87 – 1,271.01

5683 votes

Nov 6, 2026

Category: creative_writing
Evaluated configuration: NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-11-06 · rating

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

1,368.08 rating

Confidence interval: 1,361.20 – 1,374.97

10312 votes

Nov 6, 2026

Category: english
Evaluated configuration: NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-11-06 · rating

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

1,284.69 rating

Confidence interval: 1,277.60 – 1,291.78

19786 votes

Nov 6, 2026

Category: exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration: NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-11-06 · rating

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

1,361.13 rating

Confidence interval: 1,349.13 – 1,373.13

2800 votes

Nov 6, 2026

Category: expert
Evaluated configuration: NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-11-06 · rating

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

1,377.82 rating

Confidence interval: 1,356.53 – 1,399.11

914 votes

Nov 6, 2026

Category: french
Evaluated configuration: NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-11-06 · rating

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

1,303.07 rating

Confidence interval: 1,271.19 – 1,334.94

432 votes

Nov 6, 2026

Category: german
Evaluated configuration: NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-11-06 · rating

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

1,341.02 rating

Confidence interval: 1,334.94 – 1,347.11

16689 votes

Nov 6, 2026

Category: hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration: NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-11-06 · rating

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

1,373.99 rating

Confidence interval: 1,365.77 – 1,382.20

6635 votes

Nov 6, 2026

Category: hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration: NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-11-06 · rating

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

1,324.35 rating

Confidence interval: 1,314.76 – 1,333.95

4775 votes

Nov 6, 2026

Category: industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration: NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-11-06 · rating

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

1,271.90 rating

Confidence interval: 1,263.08 – 1,280.72

6661 votes

Nov 6, 2026

Category: industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration: NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-11-06 · rating

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

1,312.56 rating

Confidence interval: 1,298.35 – 1,326.77

2184 votes

Nov 6, 2026

Category: industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration: NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-11-06 · rating

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

1,326.78 rating

Confidence interval: 1,316.58 – 1,336.98

4312 votes

Nov 6, 2026

Category: industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration: NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-11-06 · rating

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

1,362.67 rating

Confidence interval: 1,345.87 – 1,379.46

1418 votes

Nov 6, 2026

Category: industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration: NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-11-06 · rating

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

1,295.63 rating

Confidence interval: 1,279.83 – 1,311.44

1828 votes

Nov 6, 2026

Category: industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration: NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-11-06 · rating

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

1,375.13 rating

Confidence interval: 1,368.01 – 1,382.25

9715 votes

Nov 6, 2026

Category: industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration: NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-11-06 · rating

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

1,282.24 rating

Confidence interval: 1,273.72 – 1,290.75

7222 votes

Nov 6, 2026

Category: industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration: NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-11-06 · rating

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

1,320.06 rating

Confidence interval: 1,312.54 – 1,327.58

8910 votes

Nov 6, 2026

Category: instruction_following
Evaluated configuration: NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-11-06 · rating

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

1,236.45 rating

Confidence interval: 1,204.14 – 1,268.76

471 votes

Nov 6, 2026

Category: japanese
Evaluated configuration: NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-11-06 · rating

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

1,242.64 rating

Confidence interval: 1,212.28 – 1,273.00

454 votes

Nov 6, 2026

Category: korean
Evaluated configuration: NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-11-06 · rating

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

1,320.07 rating

Confidence interval: 1,312.93 – 1,327.21

11469 votes

Nov 6, 2026

Category: longer_query
Evaluated configuration: NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-11-06 · rating

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

1,370.08 rating

Confidence interval: 1,352.09 – 1,388.06

1182 votes

Nov 6, 2026

Category: math
Evaluated configuration: NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-11-06 · rating

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

1,325.00 rating

Confidence interval: 1,313.94 – 1,336.07

3579 votes

Nov 6, 2026

Category: multi_turn
Evaluated configuration: NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-11-06 · rating

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

1,297.39 rating

Confidence interval: 1,291.12 – 1,303.67

15742 votes

Nov 6, 2026

Category: non_english
Evaluated configuration: NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-11-06 · rating

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

1,330.55 rating

Confidence interval: 1,325.31 – 1,335.79

26056 votes

Nov 6, 2026

Category: overall
Evaluated configuration: NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / polishhuman preference · 2026-11-06 · rating

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

1,273.87 rating

Confidence interval: 1,242.24 – 1,305.50

421 votes

Nov 6, 2026

Category: polish
Evaluated configuration: NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-11-06 · rating

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

1,256.42 rating

Confidence interval: 1,244.50 – 1,268.35

3518 votes

Nov 6, 2026

Category: russian
Evaluated configuration: NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-11-06 · rating

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

1,352.02 rating

Confidence interval: 1,330.53 – 1,373.51

856 votes

Nov 6, 2026

Category: spanish
Evaluated configuration: NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)
Evaluation type: human preference

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Inference · memory estimate

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)

Not enough verified architecture information for a reliable VRAM estimate.

Capabilities

Model license: OpenMDW-1.1