Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B vs Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B finishes one point ahead overall, 61 to 60. That is enough to call, but not enough to treat as a blowout. This matchup comes down to a few meaningful edges rather than one model dominating the board.

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 44.2 against 37.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 55 to 77. Claude 3.5 Sonnet does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 200K for Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 3.5 Sonnet only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority.

Agentic

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.3

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

55

55
Terminal-Bench 2.0
54
59
BrowseComp
62
53
OSWorld-Verified
51

Coding

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

44.2

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

37.8

59
HumanEval
57
46
SWE-bench Verified
36
42
LiveCodeBench
39
46
SWE-bench Pro
37

Multimodal & Grounded

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

60.4

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

74.8

55
MMMU-Pro
77
67
OfficeQA Pro
72

Reasoning

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

71.8

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

67.7

64
SimpleQA
63
62
MuSR
61
88
BBH
83
77
LongBench v2
70
77
MRCRv2
70

Knowledge

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.8

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

50.8

68
MMLU
65
67
GPQA
65
65
SuperGPQA
63
63
OpenBookQA
61
75
MMLU-Pro
74
16
HLE
5
66
FrontierScience
59

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

86

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

83

86
IFEval
83

Multilingual

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

81.5

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

80.5

86
MGSM
85
79
MMLU-ProX
78

Mathematics

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

74.6

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

71.2

67
AIME 2023
65
69
AIME 2024
67
68
AIME 2025
66
63
HMMT Feb 2023
61
65
HMMT Feb 2024
63
64
HMMT Feb 2025
62
66
BRUMO 2025
64
85
MATH-500
80

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Claude 3.5 Sonnet?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is ahead overall, 61 to 60. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 55 and 77.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Claude 3.5 Sonnet?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.8 versus 50.8. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Claude 3.5 Sonnet?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44.2 versus 37.8. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Claude 3.5 Sonnet?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 74.6 versus 71.2. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Claude 3.5 Sonnet?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 71.8 versus 67.7. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Claude 3.5 Sonnet?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.3 versus 55. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Claude 3.5 Sonnet?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.8 versus 60.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Claude 3.5 Sonnet?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 83. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Claude 3.5 Sonnet?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.5 versus 80.5. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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