Cosmos 3 Super — VRAM, Speed & Local Setup

Autor: Jakub Rusinowski · Ostatnia aktualizacja: 21 lipca 2026

Model libraryCosmos 3 → Cosmos 3 Super

The largest, highest-fidelity tier — a 64B-parameter two-tower MoT built on a dense 32B transformer backbone. Super is the model you post-train: NVIDIA positions it for building custom robotics and autonomous-vehicle world models, generating high-quality synthetic training video and predicting long-horizon action sequences with strong physics accuracy. NVIDIA reports Cosmos 3 Super takes the highest overall PAI-Bench-G scores on both text-to-video and image-to-video across all models tested, including closed-source. Datacenter-class hardware: ~128 GB VRAM at BF16 (roughly halved at FP8), so a Hopper/Blackwell multi-GPU node (H100/H200/B200 class). Omnimodal I/O (text, image, video, audio, action). OpenMDW-1.1. Specs from launch coverage and the Hugging Face model card — verify before relying on them.

Cosmos 3 Super needs about 39 GB of VRAM at BF16 — quantized weights plus framework overhead, before any KV cache. On Apple Silicon that figure comes out of unified memory.

Specifications

Parameters64B total (32B dense transformer backbone)
Context windowOmnimodal I/O (video/action)
ArchitectureTwo-tower Mixture-of-Transformers — autoregressive reasoner (VLM) + diffusion generator, shared multimodal attention
ProviderNVIDIA
LicenceOpenMDW-1.1
Specified atBF16
System RAM256 GB
Record updated2026-07-21

Licence

OpenMDW-1.1commercial use permitted. Commercial use permitted. No usage restrictions beyond attribution.

VRAM and Speed by Quantization

Modelled on a reference NVIDIA RTX 4090 (24 GB), with no KV cache (this record has no published architecture). Speed figures are ESTIMATES from the memory-bandwidth roofline described on the methodology page, not benchmarks we ran — rows marked measured come from published or reader-submitted runs. VRAM here includes the KV cache, so it reads higher than the headline figure above, which does not.

QuantWeightsVRAM neededEst. speedFit on 24 GB
Q2_K21.0 GB21.8 GB~57 tok/s (est.)Tight fit
Q3_K_M27.3 GB28.1 GB~7 tok/s (est.)Offloads to system RAM (slow)
Q4_K_M38.6 GB39.4 GB~5 tok/s (est.)Offloads to system RAM (slow)
Q5_K_M45.4 GB46.2 GB~4 tok/s (est.)Offloads to system RAM (slow)
Q6_K52.5 GB53.3 GB~4 tok/s (est.)Offloads to system RAM (slow)
Q8_068.0 GB68.8 GBWon't fit
F16128.0 GB128.8 GBWon't fit

Want the memory numbers alone, at every quantization level and your own context length? Use the Cosmos 3 Super VRAM calculator.

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Recommended GPU

The cheapest catalogued GPU that runs Cosmos 3 Super is the Apple M5 Pro (64 GB).

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64 GB VRAM · 30 W board power
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How to Run Cosmos 3 Super

Install Ollama, then run:

ollama run cosmos-3

Weights on Hugging Face: nvidia/Cosmos3-Super.

Published Benchmark Scores

Quality scores as published by the model's authors or an independent evaluator — not throughput, and not measured by us.

BenchmarkScoreProvenance
PAI-Bench-G Image-to-Video (Overall)0.81 / 1vendor-claimed · NVIDIA Cosmos 3 (launch)
PAI-Bench-G Text-to-Video (Overall)0.77 / 1vendor-claimed · NVIDIA Cosmos 3 (launch)
R-Bench / Physics-IQ / RoboLab1 / 1 open-source SOTAvendor-claimed · NVIDIA Cosmos 3 (launch)

Best for: robotics, autonomous vehicles, world simulation, synthetic data, post training.

Can I Run Cosmos 3 Super on My GPU?

Other Cosmos 3 Sizes

Cosmos 3 Super — Frequently Asked Questions

How much VRAM does Cosmos 3 Super need?
About 39 GB at BF16 — quantized weights plus framework overhead, before any KV cache. The cache grows with context length and is added on top; the table above folds it in. Apple Silicon counts unified memory toward the same figure.
Does Cosmos 3 Super run on an RTX 4090 (24 GB)?
No. Cosmos 3 Super needs about 39 GB at BF16, more than a single RTX 4090's 24 GB. It needs a larger card, several GPUs, or Apple Silicon with enough unified memory — or it runs with part of the weights offloaded to system RAM, which is much slower.
How do I run Cosmos 3 Super locally?
Install Ollama and run `ollama run cosmos-3`. That pulls the weights and starts a local OpenAI-compatible endpoint; after the download nothing leaves the machine.
What other sizes does Cosmos 3 come in?
Cosmos 3 Super (39 GB), Cosmos 3 Nano (10 GB), Cosmos 3 Edge (3 GB). Every size shares the family's training and licence; the larger ones score higher and need proportionally more memory.

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