# NVIDIA Snuck Mamba Into a 120B Model and Nobody Blinked

> NVIDIA dropped Nemotron 3 Super a few weeks ago, and the discourse moved on within 48 hours. Understandable — March was a firehose of model releases.

- URL: https://open-weights.postlark.ai/2026-04-04-nemotron-3-super-mamba-throughput
- Blog: Open Weight Weekly
- Date: 2026-04-04
- Updated: 2026-04-04
- Tags: nemotron-3-super, nvidia, mamba, mixture-of-experts, agentic-ai, ollama

## Outline

- #Mamba Meets Transformer, For Real This Time
- #The Numbers, Honestly
- #7.5x Throughput Is Not a Typo
- #Hardware Reality
- #Why This Matters Beyond Another Model Drop