Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B vs Gemini 2.5 Flash

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 49. 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 21.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 42 to 18. Gemini 2.5 Flash does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Gemini 2.5 Flash is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.15 input / $0.60 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Gemini 2.5 Flash gives you the larger context window at 1M, 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 2.5 Flash only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you need the larger 1M context window.

Agentic

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.3

Gemini 2.5 Flash

46.5

55
Terminal-Bench 2.0
44
59
BrowseComp
58
53
OSWorld-Verified
41

Coding

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

44.2

Gemini 2.5 Flash

21.7

59
HumanEval
42
46
SWE-bench Verified
23
42
LiveCodeBench
18
46
SWE-bench Pro
25

Multimodal & Grounded

Gemini 2.5 Flash

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

60.4

Gemini 2.5 Flash

67.7

55
MMMU-Pro
69
67
OfficeQA Pro
66

Reasoning

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

71.8

Gemini 2.5 Flash

59.2

64
SimpleQA
48
62
MuSR
46
88
BBH
75
77
LongBench v2
68
77
MRCRv2
68

Knowledge

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.8

Gemini 2.5 Flash

40.5

68
MMLU
50
67
GPQA
49
65
SuperGPQA
47
63
OpenBookQA
45
75
MMLU-Pro
64
16
HLE
1
66
FrontierScience
49

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

86

Gemini 2.5 Flash

79

86
IFEval
79

Multilingual

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

81.5

Gemini 2.5 Flash

70.8

86
MGSM
74
79
MMLU-ProX
69

Mathematics

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

74.6

Gemini 2.5 Flash

59.4

67
AIME 2023
50
69
AIME 2024
52
68
AIME 2025
51
63
HMMT Feb 2023
46
65
HMMT Feb 2024
48
64
HMMT Feb 2025
47
66
BRUMO 2025
49
85
MATH-500
72

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Gemini 2.5 Flash?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is ahead overall, 61 to 49. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 42 and 18.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Gemini 2.5 Flash?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.8 versus 40.5. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Gemini 2.5 Flash?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44.2 versus 21.7. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Gemini 2.5 Flash?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 74.6 versus 59.4. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Gemini 2.5 Flash?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 71.8 versus 59.2. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Gemini 2.5 Flash?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.3 versus 46.5. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified 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 2.5 Flash?

Gemini 2.5 Flash has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 67.7 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 2.5 Flash?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 79. 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 2.5 Flash?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.5 versus 70.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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