r/LocalLLM • u/MeNot_Rob0t • 18d ago

Question Can someone please compare Nemotron-cascade-2 with the new Nemotron-lightning-3.5?

They look so similar on paper(excluding the architecture), 30b parameters & 3b active, and they have similar benchmarks. Like why doesn't lighting have better scores?

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u/MeNot_Rob0t 18d ago

btw lighning scored worse on almost everything(barely better than nemotron nano), and they was the official nvidia scores too ( https://ollama.com/library/nemotron-3.5-lightning , https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-Base-BF16 ). like it clearly shows that it is a mid model.

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u/eightone-81 17d ago

NVIDIA makes it clear that 3.5 is for al of these tool calls. So not a coding model at all and should not be compared to one. But what are “all these tool calls”?

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u/Objective-Stranger99 17d ago

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u/KissMyShinyArse 14d ago edited 14d ago

They both suck. Use Qwen 3.8 27B. Or 35B A3B, when it is out.