Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 61 versus 59. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 44.2 against 40.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MRCRv2, 77 to 65. Llama 3.1 405B does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for Llama 3.1 405B.
Pick Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Llama 3.1 405B only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
55.3
Llama 3.1 405B
53.9
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
44.2
Llama 3.1 405B
40.6
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
60.4
Llama 3.1 405B
62.3
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
71.8
Llama 3.1 405B
68.3
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
55.8
Llama 3.1 405B
53.2
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
86
Llama 3.1 405B
86
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
81.5
Llama 3.1 405B
80.1
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
74.6
Llama 3.1 405B
74.9
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is ahead overall, 61 to 59. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MRCRv2, where the scores are 77 and 65.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.8 versus 53.2. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44.2 versus 40.6. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Llama 3.1 405B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 74.9 versus 74.6. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 71.8 versus 68.3. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.3 versus 53.9. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Llama 3.1 405B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 62.3 versus 60.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B and Llama 3.1 405B are effectively tied for instruction following here, both landing at 86 on average.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.5 versus 80.1. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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