Head-to-head comparison across 3benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Gemma 4 12B
53
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B
49
Pick Gemma 4 12B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority.
Coding
+18.5 difference
Knowledge
+2.3 difference
Multimodal
+7.2 difference
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Pick Gemma 4 12B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority.
Gemma 4 12B is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 53 to 49. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Gemma 4 12B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 72 against 53.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 72% to 63.2%. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Gemma 4 12B is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 53 to 49. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 72% and 63.2%.
Gemma 4 12B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 77.8 versus 75.5. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemma 4 12B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 72 versus 53.5. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.3 versus 69.1. Gemma 4 12B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
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