Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 64 to 60. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 43.8 against 35. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MRCRv2, 85 to 66. 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.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B gives you the larger context window at 10M, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning).
Pick Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B
62.8
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
58.5
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B
43.8
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
35
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B
66.9
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
71.5
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B
77.2
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
69.2
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B
57
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
52.1
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B
84
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
81
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B
79.7
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
77.8
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B
78
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
75.2
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B is ahead overall, 64 to 60. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MRCRv2, where the scores are 85 and 66.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 57 versus 52.1. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 43.8 versus 35. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 78 versus 75.2. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 77.2 versus 69.2. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 62.8 versus 58.5. Inside this category, BrowseComp 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 66.9. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 84 versus 81. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.7 versus 77.8. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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