Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Gemma 4 E4B
~47
Winner · 3/8 categoriesNemotron 3 Nano 30B
42
1/8 categoriesGemma 4 E4B· Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
Pick Gemma 4 E4B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Nano 30B only becomes the better choice if reasoning is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Gemma 4 E4B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 47 to 42. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Gemma 4 E4B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 52 against 22.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is BBH, 33.1% to 72%. Nemotron 3 Nano 30B does hit back in reasoning, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Gemma 4 E4B 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 E4B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Nemotron 3 Nano 30B.
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| Benchmark | Gemma 4 E4B | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | — | 38% |
| BrowseComp | — | 43% |
| OSWorld-Verified | — | 39% |
| CodingGemma 4 E4B wins | ||
| LiveCodeBench | 52% | 16% |
| HumanEval | — | 49% |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 26% |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | 27% |
| Multimodal & GroundedGemma 4 E4B wins | ||
| MMMU-Pro | 52.6% | 38% |
| OfficeQA Pro | — | 54% |
| ReasoningNemotron 3 Nano 30B wins | ||
| BBH | 33.1% | 72% |
| MRCRv2 | 25.4% | 51% |
| MuSR | — | 52% |
| LongBench v2 | — | 51% |
| KnowledgeGemma 4 E4B wins | ||
| GPQA | 58.6% | 56% |
| MMLU-Pro | 69.4% | 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% |
Gemma 4 E4B is ahead overall, 47 to 42. The biggest single separator in this matchup is BBH, where the scores are 33.1% and 72%.
Gemma 4 E4B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 65.6 versus 44.5. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemma 4 E4B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 52 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 25.4. Inside this category, BBH is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemma 4 E4B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.6 versus 45.2. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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