Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 61 to 41. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 74.6 against 46.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU, 68 to 34.
DeepSeek V3.1 (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B 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 Super 120B A12B gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for DeepSeek V3.1 (Reasoning).
Pick Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DeepSeek V3.1 (Reasoning) only becomes the better choice if you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
55.3
DeepSeek V3.1 (Reasoning)
44.2
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
44.2
DeepSeek V3.1 (Reasoning)
19.9
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
60.4
DeepSeek V3.1 (Reasoning)
41.5
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
71.8
DeepSeek V3.1 (Reasoning)
45.8
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
55.8
DeepSeek V3.1 (Reasoning)
32.8
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
86
DeepSeek V3.1 (Reasoning)
70
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
81.5
DeepSeek V3.1 (Reasoning)
62.1
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
74.6
DeepSeek V3.1 (Reasoning)
46.1
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is ahead overall, 61 to 41. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU, where the scores are 68 and 34.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.8 versus 32.8. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44.2 versus 19.9. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 74.6 versus 46.1. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 71.8 versus 45.8. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.3 versus 44.2. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.4 versus 41.5. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 70. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.5 versus 62.1. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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