Notes on NIM Container Variants

Some NIMs are built with packages that vary from the standard base Docker container. These NIMs can better access features specific to a particular model or can run on GPUs before they are fully supported in the main source code branch. These NIMs, also known as NIM container variants, are designated by the -variant suffix in their version tag name.

These NIM container variants have important, underlying differences from NIMs built with the standard base container. These differences vary according to model.

Llama-3.1-8b-Instruct-DGX-Spark

This NIM container variant was released with LLM NIM container version 1.14 and uses the 1.0.0-variant tag. For more information, refer to the 1.14 version of this page.

NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2-DGX-Spark

This NIM container variant was released with LLM NIM container version 1.14 and uses the 1.0.0-variant tag. For more information, refer to the 1.14 version of this page.

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking

This NIM container variant was released with LLM NIM container version 1.14 and uses the 1.0.0-variant tag. For more information, refer to the 1.14 version of this page.

Qwen3-32B NIM for DGX Spark

This NIM container variant was released with LLM NIM container version 1.14 and uses the 1.0.0-variant tag. For more information, refer to the 1.14 version of this page.