DeepSeek V3.2 vs Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

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

DeepSeek V3.2 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.

DeepSeek V3.2's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 82.1 against 74.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 76 to 59. Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B does hit back in coding, 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 V3.2.

Quick Verdict

Pick DeepSeek V3.2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you need the larger 256K context window.

Agentic

DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek V3.2

58.8

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.3

60
Terminal-Bench 2.0
55
62
BrowseComp
59
55
OSWorld-Verified
53

Coding

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

DeepSeek V3.2

43.2

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

44.2

76
HumanEval
59
45
SWE-bench Verified
46
39
LiveCodeBench
42
47
SWE-bench Pro
46

Multimodal & Grounded

DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek V3.2

66

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

60.4

61
MMMU-Pro
55
72
OfficeQA Pro
67

Reasoning

DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek V3.2

75.3

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

71.8

81
SimpleQA
64
79
MuSR
62
81
BBH
88
69
LongBench v2
77
70
MRCRv2
77

Knowledge

DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek V3.2

60

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.8

84
MMLU
68
83
GPQA
67
81
SuperGPQA
65
79
OpenBookQA
63
73
MMLU-Pro
75
11
HLE
16
72
FrontierScience
66

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

DeepSeek V3.2

85

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

86

85
IFEval
86

Multilingual

DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek V3.2

82.1

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

81.5

84
MGSM
86
81
MMLU-ProX
79

Mathematics

DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek V3.2

82.1

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

74.6

84
AIME 2023
67
86
AIME 2024
69
85
AIME 2025
68
80
HMMT Feb 2023
63
82
HMMT Feb 2024
65
81
HMMT Feb 2025
64
83
BRUMO 2025
66
81
MATH-500
85

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, DeepSeek V3.2 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

DeepSeek V3.2 is ahead overall, 64 to 61. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 76 and 59.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, DeepSeek V3.2 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

DeepSeek V3.2 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 60 versus 55.8. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, DeepSeek V3.2 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44.2 versus 43.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, DeepSeek V3.2 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

DeepSeek V3.2 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 82.1 versus 74.6. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, DeepSeek V3.2 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

DeepSeek V3.2 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 75.3 versus 71.8. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, DeepSeek V3.2 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

DeepSeek V3.2 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.8 versus 55.3. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, DeepSeek V3.2 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

DeepSeek V3.2 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 66 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 V3.2 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 V3.2 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

DeepSeek V3.2 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.1 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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