Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Gemma 4 E2B
~39
2/8 categoriesNemotron 3 Nano 30B
42
Winner · 2/8 categoriesGemma 4 E2B· Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
Pick Nemotron 3 Nano 30B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 E2B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you need the larger 128K context window.
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 42 versus 39. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 51.3 against 19.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is BBH, 21.9% to 72%. Gemma 4 E2B does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Gemma 4 E2B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Nemotron 3 Nano 30B 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. Gemma 4 E2B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Nemotron 3 Nano 30B.
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| Benchmark | Gemma 4 E2B | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | — | 38% |
| BrowseComp | — | 43% |
| OSWorld-Verified | — | 39% |
| CodingGemma 4 E2B wins | ||
| LiveCodeBench | 44% | 16% |
| HumanEval | — | 49% |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 26% |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | 27% |
| Multimodal & GroundedNemotron 3 Nano 30B wins | ||
| MMMU-Pro | 44.2% | 38% |
| OfficeQA Pro | — | 54% |
| ReasoningNemotron 3 Nano 30B wins | ||
| BBH | 21.9% | 72% |
| MRCRv2 | 19.1% | 51% |
| MuSR | — | 52% |
| LongBench v2 | — | 51% |
| KnowledgeGemma 4 E2B wins | ||
| GPQA | 43.4% | 56% |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | 65% |
| MMLU | — | 57% |
| SuperGPQA | — | 54% |
| HLE | — | 1% |
| FrontierScience | — | 54% |
| SimpleQA | — | 54% |
| Instruction Following | ||
| IFEval | — | 78% |
| Multilingual | ||
| MGSM | — | 75% |
| MMLU-ProX | — | 70% |
| Mathematics | ||
| AIME 2023 | — | 57% |
| AIME 2024 | — | 59% |
| HMMT Feb 2024 | — | 55% |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | — | 54% |
| BRUMO 2025 | — | 56% |
| MATH-500 | — | 73% |
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B is ahead overall, 42 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is BBH, where the scores are 21.9% and 72%.
Gemma 4 E2B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 54.1 versus 44.5. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemma 4 E2B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44 versus 22.5. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 51.3 versus 19.1. Inside this category, BBH is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 45.2 versus 44.2. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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