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 31. 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 coding, where it averages 44.2 against 7.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 59 to 16.
Ministral 3 3B (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 3B (Reasoning).
Pick Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning) only becomes the better choice if you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
55.3
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
34
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
44.2
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
7.2
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
60.4
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
30.4
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
71.8
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
35.3
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
55.8
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
25.2
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
86
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
68
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
81.5
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
59.7
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
74.6
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
40.9
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is ahead overall, 61 to 31. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 59 and 16.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.8 versus 25.2. Inside this category, MMLU 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 7.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 74.6 versus 40.9. 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 35.3. Inside this category, LongBench v2 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 34. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.4 versus 30.4. 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 68. 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 59.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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