DeepSeek V3 vs Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

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

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 37 to 25. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 69.9 against 24.9. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SimpleQA, 24.9% to 71%. DeepSeek V3 does hit back in mathematics, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B is the reasoning model in the pair, while DeepSeek V3 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 128K for DeepSeek V3.

Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DeepSeek V3 only becomes the better choice if mathematics is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

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Coding

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

DeepSeek V3

42

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

66

42%
SWE-bench Verified
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HumanEval
66%

Multimodal & Grounded

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Reasoning

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

DeepSeek V3

24.9

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

69.9

24.9%
SimpleQA
71%
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MuSR
69%

Knowledge

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

DeepSeek V3

69.6

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

72

59.1%
GPQA
73%
88.5%
MMLU
74%
75.9%
MMLU-Pro
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SuperGPQA
71%
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OpenBookQA
69%

Instruction Following

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Multilingual

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Mathematics

DeepSeek V3

DeepSeek V3

90.2

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

73

39.2%
AIME 2024
76%
90.2%
MATH-500
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AIME 2023
74%
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AIME 2025
75%
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HMMT Feb 2023
70%
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HMMT Feb 2024
72%
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HMMT Feb 2025
71%
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BRUMO 2025
73%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, DeepSeek V3 or Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B?

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B is ahead overall, 37 to 25. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SimpleQA, where the scores are 24.9% and 71%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, DeepSeek V3 or Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B?

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 72 versus 69.6. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, DeepSeek V3 or Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B?

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 66 versus 42. DeepSeek V3 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Which is better for math, DeepSeek V3 or Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B?

DeepSeek V3 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 90.2 versus 73. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, DeepSeek V3 or Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B?

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 69.9 versus 24.9. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 17, 2026

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