Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B vs DBRX Instruct

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

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 67 to 32. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B is the reasoning model in the pair, while DBRX Instruct 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. Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B gives you the larger context window at 10M, compared with 32K for DBRX Instruct.

Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DBRX Instruct only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Knowledge

DBRX Instruct

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

62.5

DBRX Instruct

73.7

74
MMLU
73.7
73
GPQA
-
71
SuperGPQA
-
69
OpenBookQA
-
73
MMLU-Pro
-
15
HLE
-

Coding

DBRX Instruct

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

49.7

DBRX Instruct

70.1

66
HumanEval
70.1
42
SWE-bench Verified
-
41
LiveCodeBench
-

Mathematics

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B
74
AIME 2023
-
76
AIME 2024
-
75
AIME 2025
-
70
HMMT Feb 2023
-
72
HMMT Feb 2024
-
71
HMMT Feb 2025
-
73
BRUMO 2025
-
84
MATH-500
-

Reasoning

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B
71
SimpleQA
-
69
MuSR
-
85
BBH
-

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B
84
IFEval
-

Multilingual

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B
81
MGSM
-

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B or DBRX Instruct?

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B is ahead overall, 67 to 32. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 66 and 70.1.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B or DBRX Instruct?

DBRX Instruct has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.7 versus 62.5. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B or DBRX Instruct?

DBRX Instruct has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 70.1 versus 49.7. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 9, 2026

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