NVIDIA's NEW Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 4B Model Is INSANE... I Tested It 10 Ways On An 8GB Laptop

NVIDIA's new Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B (8B total, 4B effective) installed on my own Windows laptop with an RTX 4060 8 GB, and put through 10 real tests: rule following, tool calls, agent chains, JSON, long context, vision, thinking mode, NPC roleplay and code. Real screen recordings, real logs, and the failures are shown. Result: 5 clean passes, 4 partial, 1 fail. Measured here: about 77 tokens/s and about 0.2 s to first word (warm), 64K context loads on 8 GB at 7.8 of 8.2 GB. NVIDIA's own benchmark table (their harness) also has Qwen3.5 4B ahead on tool use and 64K long context. I did not test Qw