Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 45 to 33. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 63.7 against 42.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 49 to 17.
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking 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.
Pick Nemotron 3 Nano 30B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking only becomes the better choice if you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
39.6
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
34.1
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
22
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
8.2
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
45.2
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
32.4
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
54
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
38.4
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
43.8
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
27
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
78
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
72
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
71.8
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
60.7
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B
63.7
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
42.3
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B is ahead overall, 45 to 33. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 49 and 17.
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 43.8 versus 27. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 22 versus 8.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 63.7 versus 42.3. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 54 versus 38.4. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 39.6 versus 34.1. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified 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 32.4. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 78 versus 72. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.8 versus 60.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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