DeepSeekMath V2 vs Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

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

DeepSeekMath V2 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 66 to 61. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

DeepSeekMath V2's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 84 against 74.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 72 to 59. Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B does hit back in instruction following, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

DeepSeekMath V2 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 DeepSeekMath V2.

Quick Verdict

Pick DeepSeekMath V2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority or you need the larger 256K context window.

Agentic

DeepSeekMath V2

DeepSeekMath V2

63.9

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.3

65
Terminal-Bench 2.0
55
66
BrowseComp
59
61
OSWorld-Verified
53

Coding

DeepSeekMath V2

DeepSeekMath V2

47.3

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

44.2

72
HumanEval
59
45
SWE-bench Verified
46
44
LiveCodeBench
42
51
SWE-bench Pro
46

Multimodal & Grounded

DeepSeekMath V2

DeepSeekMath V2

68.1

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

60.4

64
MMMU-Pro
55
73
OfficeQA Pro
67

Reasoning

DeepSeekMath V2

DeepSeekMath V2

75.9

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

71.8

77
SimpleQA
64
75
MuSR
62
86
BBH
88
75
LongBench v2
77
72
MRCRv2
77

Knowledge

DeepSeekMath V2

DeepSeekMath V2

61

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.8

80
MMLU
68
79
GPQA
67
77
SuperGPQA
65
75
OpenBookQA
63
74
MMLU-Pro
75
18
HLE
16
73
FrontierScience
66

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

DeepSeekMath V2

83

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

86

83
IFEval
86

Multilingual

DeepSeekMath V2

DeepSeekMath V2

82.5

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

81.5

87
MGSM
86
80
MMLU-ProX
79

Mathematics

DeepSeekMath V2

DeepSeekMath V2

84

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
90
MATH-500
85

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, DeepSeekMath V2 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

DeepSeekMath V2 is ahead overall, 66 to 61. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 72 and 59.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, DeepSeekMath V2 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

DeepSeekMath V2 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 61 versus 55.8. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, DeepSeekMath V2 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

DeepSeekMath V2 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 47.3 versus 44.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, DeepSeekMath V2 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

DeepSeekMath V2 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 84 versus 74.6. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, DeepSeekMath V2 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

DeepSeekMath V2 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 75.9 versus 71.8. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, DeepSeekMath V2 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

DeepSeekMath V2 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 63.9 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, DeepSeekMath V2 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

DeepSeekMath V2 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 68.1 versus 60.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, DeepSeekMath V2 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 83. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, DeepSeekMath V2 or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

DeepSeekMath V2 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.5 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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