Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B vs Gemini 1.5 Pro

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 52. 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 coding, where it averages 44.2 against 18.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 46 to 5. Gemini 1.5 Pro does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Gemini 1.5 Pro gives you the larger context window at 2M, compared with 256K for Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemini 1.5 Pro only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you need the larger 2M context window.

Agentic

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.3

Gemini 1.5 Pro

49.8

55
Terminal-Bench 2.0
45
59
BrowseComp
64
53
OSWorld-Verified
45

Coding

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

44.2

Gemini 1.5 Pro

18.5

59
HumanEval
56
46
SWE-bench Verified
5
42
LiveCodeBench
22
46
SWE-bench Pro
18

Multimodal & Grounded

Gemini 1.5 Pro

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

60.4

Gemini 1.5 Pro

74.1

55
MMMU-Pro
75
67
OfficeQA Pro
73

Reasoning

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

71.8

Gemini 1.5 Pro

66.9

64
SimpleQA
62
62
MuSR
60
88
BBH
74
77
LongBench v2
70
77
MRCRv2
73

Knowledge

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.8

Gemini 1.5 Pro

44.2

68
MMLU
64
67
GPQA
64
65
SuperGPQA
62
63
OpenBookQA
60
75
MMLU-Pro
57
16
HLE
1
66
FrontierScience
54

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

86

Gemini 1.5 Pro

77

86
IFEval
77

Multilingual

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

81.5

Gemini 1.5 Pro

69.5

86
MGSM
76
79
MMLU-ProX
66

Mathematics

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

74.6

Gemini 1.5 Pro

67.5

67
AIME 2023
64
69
AIME 2024
66
68
AIME 2025
65
63
HMMT Feb 2023
60
65
HMMT Feb 2024
62
64
HMMT Feb 2025
61
66
BRUMO 2025
63
85
MATH-500
73

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is ahead overall, 61 to 52. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 46 and 5.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.8 versus 44.2. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44.2 versus 18.5. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 74.6 versus 67.5. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 71.8 versus 66.9. Inside this category, BBH is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.3 versus 49.8. 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, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Gemini 1.5 Pro has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.1 versus 60.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 77. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.5 versus 69.5. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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