Claude 4.1 Opus vs Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

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

Claude 4.1 Opus has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 64 versus 61. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

Claude 4.1 Opus's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 80.7 against 60.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 82 to 55. Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B does hit back in instruction following, 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 4.1 Opus.

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude 4.1 Opus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority or you need the larger 256K context window.

Agentic

Claude 4.1 Opus

Claude 4.1 Opus

58.7

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.3

58
Terminal-Bench 2.0
55
62
BrowseComp
59
57
OSWorld-Verified
53

Coding

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Claude 4.1 Opus

44

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

44.2

68
HumanEval
59
48
SWE-bench Verified
46
40
LiveCodeBench
42
47
SWE-bench Pro
46

Multimodal & Grounded

Claude 4.1 Opus

Claude 4.1 Opus

80.7

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

60.4

82
MMMU-Pro
55
79
OfficeQA Pro
67

Reasoning

Claude 4.1 Opus

Claude 4.1 Opus

72.9

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

71.8

74
SimpleQA
64
72
MuSR
62
81
BBH
88
71
LongBench v2
77
71
MRCRv2
77

Knowledge

Claude 4.1 Opus

Claude 4.1 Opus

57.6

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.8

76
MMLU
68
76
GPQA
67
74
SuperGPQA
65
72
OpenBookQA
63
75
MMLU-Pro
75
11
HLE
16
68
FrontierScience
66

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Claude 4.1 Opus

83

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

86

83
IFEval
86

Multilingual

Claude 4.1 Opus

Claude 4.1 Opus

81.8

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

81.5

85
MGSM
86
80
MMLU-ProX
79

Mathematics

Claude 4.1 Opus

Claude 4.1 Opus

77.7

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

74.6

76
AIME 2023
67
78
AIME 2024
69
77
AIME 2025
68
72
HMMT Feb 2023
63
74
HMMT Feb 2024
65
73
HMMT Feb 2025
64
75
BRUMO 2025
66
81
MATH-500
85

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Claude 4.1 Opus or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Claude 4.1 Opus is ahead overall, 64 to 61. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 82 and 55.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude 4.1 Opus or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 57.6 versus 55.8. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Claude 4.1 Opus or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44.2 versus 44. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Claude 4.1 Opus or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 77.7 versus 74.6. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Claude 4.1 Opus or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 72.9 versus 71.8. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Claude 4.1 Opus or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.7 versus 55.3. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Claude 4.1 Opus or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.7 versus 60.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Claude 4.1 Opus or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

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, Claude 4.1 Opus or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.8 versus 81.5. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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