Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B vs LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

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 30. 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 reasoning, where it averages 71.8 against 32.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 59 to 14.

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct.

Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Agentic

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.3

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

25.7

55
Terminal-Bench 2.0
22
59
BrowseComp
31
53
OSWorld-Verified
26

Coding

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

44.2

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

7.2

59
HumanEval
14
46
SWE-bench Verified
9
42
LiveCodeBench
8
46
SWE-bench Pro
6

Multimodal & Grounded

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

60.4

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

32.4

55
MMMU-Pro
27
67
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

71.8

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

32.1

64
SimpleQA
24
62
MuSR
22
88
BBH
59
77
LongBench v2
34
77
MRCRv2
37

Knowledge

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.8

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

26

68
MMLU
26
67
GPQA
25
65
SuperGPQA
23
63
OpenBookQA
21
75
MMLU-Pro
50
16
HLE
1
66
FrontierScience
30

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

86

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

80

86
IFEval
80

Multilingual

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

81.5

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

60.7

86
MGSM
62
79
MMLU-ProX
60

Mathematics

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

74.6

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

37

67
AIME 2023
24
69
AIME 2024
26
68
AIME 2025
25
63
HMMT Feb 2023
20
65
HMMT Feb 2024
22
64
HMMT Feb 2025
21
66
BRUMO 2025
23
85
MATH-500
54

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is ahead overall, 61 to 30. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 59 and 14.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.8 versus 26. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44.2 versus 7.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 74.6 versus 37. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 71.8 versus 32.1. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.3 versus 25.7. 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 LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.4 versus 32.4. 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 LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 80. 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 LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.5 versus 60.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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