Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
1-bit Bonsai 8B
~50
Winner · 2/8 categoriesNemotron Ultra 253B
41
2/8 categories1-bit Bonsai 8B· Nemotron Ultra 253B
Pick 1-bit Bonsai 8B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron Ultra 253B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.
1-bit Bonsai 8B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 50 to 41. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
1-bit Bonsai 8B's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 66 against 55.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 30% to 48%. Nemotron Ultra 253B does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Nemotron Ultra 253B is the reasoning model in the pair, while 1-bit Bonsai 8B is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. 1-bit Bonsai 8B gives you the larger context window at 64K, compared with 32K for Nemotron Ultra 253B.
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| Benchmark | 1-bit Bonsai 8B | Nemotron Ultra 253B |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | — | 46% |
| BrowseComp | — | 50% |
| OSWorld-Verified | — | 45% |
| Coding | ||
| HumanEval | — | 41% |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 31% |
| LiveCodeBench | — | 30% |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | 38% |
| Multimodal & Grounded | ||
| MMMU-Pro | — | 37% |
| OfficeQA Pro | — | 54% |
| ReasoningNemotron Ultra 253B wins | ||
| MuSR | 50% | 45% |
| BBH | — | 77% |
| LongBench v2 | — | 55% |
| MRCRv2 | — | 56% |
| KnowledgeNemotron Ultra 253B wins | ||
| GPQA | 30% | 48% |
| MMLU | — | 49% |
| SuperGPQA | — | 46% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 63% |
| HLE | — | 11% |
| FrontierScience | — | 49% |
| SimpleQA | — | 47% |
| Instruction Following1-bit Bonsai 8B wins | ||
| IFEval | 79.8% | 78% |
| Multilingual | ||
| MGSM | — | 74% |
| MMLU-ProX | — | 68% |
| Mathematics1-bit Bonsai 8B wins | ||
| MATH-500 | 66% | 74% |
| AIME 2023 | — | 49% |
| AIME 2024 | — | 51% |
| AIME 2025 | — | 50% |
| HMMT Feb 2023 | — | 45% |
| HMMT Feb 2024 | — | 47% |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | — | 46% |
| BRUMO 2025 | — | 48% |
1-bit Bonsai 8B is ahead overall, 50 to 41. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 30% and 48%.
Nemotron Ultra 253B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 42.6 versus 30. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
1-bit Bonsai 8B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 66 versus 55.3. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron Ultra 253B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 52.7 versus 50. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
1-bit Bonsai 8B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 79.8 versus 78. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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