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 27. 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 reasoning, where it averages 71.8 against 30.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LongBench v2, 77 to 32.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 3B.
Pick Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 3B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
55.3
Ministral 3 3B
22.9
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
44.2
Ministral 3 3B
6.2
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
60.4
Ministral 3 3B
30.4
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
71.8
Ministral 3 3B
30.1
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
55.8
Ministral 3 3B
24.5
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
86
Ministral 3 3B
67
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
81.5
Ministral 3 3B
59.7
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
74.6
Ministral 3 3B
36
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is ahead overall, 61 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LongBench v2, where the scores are 77 and 32.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.8 versus 24.5. 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 6.2. 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 36. 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 30.1. 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 22.9. 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 67. 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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