Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B finishes one point ahead overall, 61 to 60. That is enough to call, but not enough to treat as a blowout. This matchup comes down to a few meaningful edges rather than one model dominating the board.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 44.2 against 35. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 55 to 71. Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B 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. Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning).
Pick Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
55.3
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
58.5
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
44.2
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
35
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
60.4
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
71.5
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
71.8
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
69.2
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
55.8
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
52.1
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
86
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
81
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
81.5
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
77.8
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
74.6
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
75.2
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is ahead overall, 61 to 60. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 55 and 71.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.8 versus 52.1. 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 35. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 75.2 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 69.2. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.5 versus 55.3. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.5 versus 60.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 81. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.5 versus 77.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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