Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B vs Grok Code Fast 1

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

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 61 to 54. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 44.2 against 32.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 42 to 24. Grok Code Fast 1 does hit back in agentic, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Grok Code Fast 1 only becomes the better choice if agentic is the priority.

Agentic

Grok Code Fast 1

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.3

Grok Code Fast 1

55.7

55
Terminal-Bench 2.0
59
59
BrowseComp
57
53
OSWorld-Verified
51

Coding

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

44.2

Grok Code Fast 1

32.8

59
HumanEval
60
46
SWE-bench Verified
31
42
LiveCodeBench
24
46
SWE-bench Pro
42

Multimodal & Grounded

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

60.4

Grok Code Fast 1

50.4

55
MMMU-Pro
40
67
OfficeQA Pro
63

Reasoning

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

71.8

Grok Code Fast 1

63.7

64
SimpleQA
61
62
MuSR
59
88
BBH
75
77
LongBench v2
64
77
MRCRv2
66

Knowledge

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.8

Grok Code Fast 1

48

68
MMLU
64
67
GPQA
63
65
SuperGPQA
61
63
OpenBookQA
59
75
MMLU-Pro
65
16
HLE
7
66
FrontierScience
57

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

86

Grok Code Fast 1

79

86
IFEval
79

Multilingual

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

81.5

Grok Code Fast 1

73.7

86
MGSM
75
79
MMLU-ProX
73

Mathematics

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

74.6

Grok Code Fast 1

67.5

67
AIME 2023
64
69
AIME 2024
66
68
AIME 2025
65
63
HMMT Feb 2023
60
65
HMMT Feb 2024
62
64
HMMT Feb 2025
61
66
BRUMO 2025
63
85
MATH-500
73

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Grok Code Fast 1?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is ahead overall, 61 to 54. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 42 and 24.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Grok Code Fast 1?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.8 versus 48. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Grok Code Fast 1?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44.2 versus 32.8. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Grok Code Fast 1?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 74.6 versus 67.5. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Grok Code Fast 1?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 71.8 versus 63.7. Inside this category, BBH is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Grok Code Fast 1?

Grok Code Fast 1 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.7 versus 55.3. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Grok Code Fast 1?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.4 versus 50.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Grok Code Fast 1?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 79. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Grok Code Fast 1?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.5 versus 73.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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