Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Gemma 4 E2B
~39
2/8 categoriesNemotron Ultra 253B
41
Winner · 2/8 categoriesGemma 4 E2B· Nemotron Ultra 253B
Pick Nemotron Ultra 253B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 E2B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you need the larger 128K context window.
Nemotron Ultra 253B has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 41 versus 39. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
Nemotron Ultra 253B's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 52.7 against 19.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is BBH, 21.9% to 77%. Gemma 4 E2B does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Gemma 4 E2B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Nemotron Ultra 253B.
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| Benchmark | Gemma 4 E2B | Nemotron Ultra 253B |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | — | 46% |
| BrowseComp | — | 50% |
| OSWorld-Verified | — | 45% |
| CodingGemma 4 E2B wins | ||
| LiveCodeBench | 44% | 30% |
| HumanEval | — | 41% |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 31% |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | 38% |
| Multimodal & GroundedNemotron Ultra 253B wins | ||
| MMMU-Pro | 44.2% | 37% |
| OfficeQA Pro | — | 54% |
| ReasoningNemotron Ultra 253B wins | ||
| BBH | 21.9% | 77% |
| MRCRv2 | 19.1% | 56% |
| MuSR | — | 45% |
| LongBench v2 | — | 55% |
| KnowledgeGemma 4 E2B wins | ||
| GPQA | 43.4% | 48% |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | 63% |
| MMLU | — | 49% |
| SuperGPQA | — | 46% |
| HLE | — | 11% |
| FrontierScience | — | 49% |
| SimpleQA | — | 47% |
| Instruction Following | ||
| IFEval | — | 78% |
| Multilingual | ||
| MGSM | — | 74% |
| MMLU-ProX | — | 68% |
| Mathematics | ||
| AIME 2023 | — | 49% |
| AIME 2024 | — | 51% |
| AIME 2025 | — | 50% |
| HMMT Feb 2023 | — | 45% |
| HMMT Feb 2024 | — | 47% |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | — | 46% |
| BRUMO 2025 | — | 48% |
| MATH-500 | — | 74% |
Nemotron Ultra 253B is ahead overall, 41 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is BBH, where the scores are 21.9% and 77%.
Gemma 4 E2B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 54.1 versus 42.6. 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 33.3. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron Ultra 253B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 52.7 versus 19.1. Inside this category, BBH is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron Ultra 253B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 44.7 versus 44.2. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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