Gemini 3 Pro vs Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

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

Gemini 3 Pro is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 77 to 61. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Gemini 3 Pro's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 93.1 against 60.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 94 to 55.

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

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 3 Pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Agentic

Gemini 3 Pro

Gemini 3 Pro

71.1

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.3

68
Terminal-Bench 2.0
55
83
BrowseComp
59
66
OSWorld-Verified
53

Coding

Gemini 3 Pro

Gemini 3 Pro

54.1

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

44.2

91
HumanEval
59
59
SWE-bench Verified
46
49
LiveCodeBench
42
58
SWE-bench Pro
46

Multimodal & Grounded

Gemini 3 Pro

Gemini 3 Pro

93.1

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

60.4

94
MMMU-Pro
55
92
OfficeQA Pro
67

Reasoning

Gemini 3 Pro

Gemini 3 Pro

91.2

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

71.8

95
SimpleQA
64
93
MuSR
62
90
BBH
88
90
LongBench v2
77
87
MRCRv2
77

Knowledge

Gemini 3 Pro

Gemini 3 Pro

71.8

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.8

99
MMLU
68
97
GPQA
67
95
SuperGPQA
65
93
OpenBookQA
63
83
MMLU-Pro
75
20
HLE
16
86
FrontierScience
66

Instruction Following

Gemini 3 Pro

Gemini 3 Pro

88

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

86

88
IFEval
86

Multilingual

Gemini 3 Pro

Gemini 3 Pro

86.4

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

81.5

89
MGSM
86
85
MMLU-ProX
79

Mathematics

Gemini 3 Pro

Gemini 3 Pro

94.1

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

74.6

99
AIME 2023
67
99
AIME 2024
69
98
AIME 2025
68
95
HMMT Feb 2023
63
97
HMMT Feb 2024
65
96
HMMT Feb 2025
64
96
BRUMO 2025
66
91
MATH-500
85

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Gemini 3 Pro is ahead overall, 77 to 61. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 94 and 55.

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

Gemini 3 Pro has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.8 versus 55.8. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Gemini 3 Pro has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 54.1 versus 44.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Gemini 3 Pro has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 94.1 versus 74.6. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Gemini 3 Pro has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 91.2 versus 71.8. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Gemini 3 Pro has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.1 versus 55.3. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Gemini 3 Pro or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Gemini 3 Pro has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 93.1 versus 60.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Gemini 3 Pro has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 88 versus 86. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Gemini 3 Pro has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 86.4 versus 81.5. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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