DeepSeek LLM 2.0 vs Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

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

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 finishes one point ahead overall, 62 to 61. 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.

DeepSeek LLM 2.0's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 80.8 against 74.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 73 to 59. Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B does hit back in multilingual, 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 128K for DeepSeek LLM 2.0.

Quick Verdict

Pick DeepSeek LLM 2.0 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B only becomes the better choice if multilingual is the priority or you need the larger 256K context window.

Agentic

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

57.9

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.3

57
Terminal-Bench 2.0
55
62
BrowseComp
59
56
OSWorld-Verified
53

Coding

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

42.9

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

44.2

73
HumanEval
59
46
SWE-bench Verified
46
39
LiveCodeBench
42
46
SWE-bench Pro
46

Multimodal & Grounded

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

64.5

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

60.4

60
MMMU-Pro
55
70
OfficeQA Pro
67

Reasoning

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

73.6

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

71.8

77
SimpleQA
64
75
MuSR
62
81
BBH
88
70
LongBench v2
77
69
MRCRv2
77

Knowledge

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

57.5

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.8

79
MMLU
68
78
GPQA
67
76
SuperGPQA
65
74
OpenBookQA
63
72
MMLU-Pro
75
12
HLE
16
67
FrontierScience
66

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

85

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

86

85
IFEval
86

Multilingual

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

78.8

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

81.5

82
MGSM
86
77
MMLU-ProX
79

Mathematics

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

DeepSeek LLM 2.0

80.8

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

74.6

80
AIME 2023
67
82
AIME 2024
69
81
AIME 2025
68
76
HMMT Feb 2023
63
78
HMMT Feb 2024
65
77
HMMT Feb 2025
64
79
BRUMO 2025
66
83
MATH-500
85

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, DeepSeek LLM 2.0 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 is ahead overall, 62 to 61. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 73 and 59.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, DeepSeek LLM 2.0 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 57.5 versus 55.8. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, DeepSeek LLM 2.0 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44.2 versus 42.9. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, DeepSeek LLM 2.0 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 80.8 versus 74.6. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, DeepSeek LLM 2.0 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 73.6 versus 71.8. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, DeepSeek LLM 2.0 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 57.9 versus 55.3. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, DeepSeek LLM 2.0 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 64.5 versus 60.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, DeepSeek LLM 2.0 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 85. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, DeepSeek LLM 2.0 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.5 versus 78.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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