Can Desktop PC · RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell · 128 GB RAM run Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B?
96 GB VRAM + 128 GB RAM · 1792 GB/s memory bandwidth · Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B has 74B parameters (9B active per token).
Short answer
Yes, excellent for chat and acceptable or better for every workload we test.
Best quantization for chat: 4-bit (39 GB of weights) on LM Studio. Generation: 130–180 tok/s, leaving about 55 GB free for your other apps.
How it rates for each workload
Same model and machine, different jobs. Agents and long documents send far bigger prompts than chat, so they need much more speed and memory.
| Workload | Verdict | Quant | Generation | First reply | Context | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chatwith Open WebUI | Excellent | 4-bit | 130–180 tok/s | under 1 s | 8K | Details |
| Coding questionswith Continue | Excellent | 4-bit | 130–180 tok/s | ≈1 s | 16K | Details |
| Coding in a repositorywith Aider | Acceptable | 4-bit | 130–170 tok/s | ≈3 s | 32K | Details |
| Agentic codingwith OpenCode | Acceptable | 4-bit | 130–170 tok/s | ≈4 s | 32K | Details |
| Long documents (64K)with Open WebUI | Excellent | 4-bit | 120–160 tok/s | ≈10 s | 64K | Details |
Speeds are estimates calibrated against measured benchmarks on similar hardware. “First reply” is the time to read the workload’s opening prompt. How we calculate
Other models for Desktop PC · RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell · 128 GB RAM
The best-rated models for chat on this machine.
- Qwen3.6 35B-A3B260–360 tok/sExcellent
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct260–360 tok/sExcellent
- gpt-oss-120b≈180 tok/sExcellent
- Gemma 4 26B-A4B210–280 tok/sExcellent
- Qwen3.5 35B-A3B260–360 tok/sExcellent
- LFM2.5 24B-A2B530–720 tok/sExcellent
Cheapest machines for Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B
Hardware rated comfortable or better for chat, lowest price first.
- Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PC / Framework Desktop · 64 GB$1,600 · 30–40 tok/sExcellent
- Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PC / Framework Desktop · 128 GB$2,000 · 30–40 tok/sExcellent
- Mac mini M4 Pro 64 GB$2,199 · 25–35 tok/sExcellent
- Mac Studio M1 Max 64 GB$2,399 · 35–45 tok/sExcellent
- Mac mini M5 Pro 64 GB$2,499 · 20–35 tok/sExcellent
- Mac Studio M2 Max 64 GB$2,599 · 35–45 tok/sExcellent
Different tool, context size or workload?
These pages use typical settings. The full check models your exact setup.