Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B vs Mistral Large 2

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 reasoning, where it averages 71.8 against 67.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LongBench v2, 77 to 66. Mistral Large 2 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 Mistral Large 2.

Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mistral Large 2 only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority.

Agentic

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.3

Mistral Large 2

52.2

55
Terminal-Bench 2.0
51
59
BrowseComp
57
53
OSWorld-Verified
50

Coding

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

44.2

Mistral Large 2

41.8

59
HumanEval
60
46
SWE-bench Verified
49
42
LiveCodeBench
38
46
SWE-bench Pro
44

Multimodal & Grounded

Mistral Large 2

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

60.4

Mistral Large 2

61

55
MMMU-Pro
56
67
OfficeQA Pro
67

Reasoning

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

71.8

Mistral Large 2

67.5

64
SimpleQA
66
62
MuSR
64
88
BBH
82
77
LongBench v2
66
77
MRCRv2
68

Knowledge

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.8

Mistral Large 2

54.6

68
MMLU
68
67
GPQA
68
65
SuperGPQA
66
63
OpenBookQA
64
75
MMLU-Pro
74
16
HLE
12
66
FrontierScience
65

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

86

Mistral Large 2

83

86
IFEval
83

Multilingual

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

81.5

Mistral Large 2

79.1

86
MGSM
81
79
MMLU-ProX
78

Mathematics

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

74.6

Mistral Large 2

73.8

67
AIME 2023
68
69
AIME 2024
70
68
AIME 2025
69
63
HMMT Feb 2023
64
65
HMMT Feb 2024
66
64
HMMT Feb 2025
65
66
BRUMO 2025
67
85
MATH-500
82

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Mistral Large 2?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is ahead overall, 61 to 59. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LongBench v2, where the scores are 77 and 66.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Mistral Large 2?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.8 versus 54.6. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Mistral Large 2?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44.2 versus 41.8. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Mistral Large 2?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 74.6 versus 73.8. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Mistral Large 2?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 71.8 versus 67.5. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Mistral Large 2?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.3 versus 52.2. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Mistral Large 2?

Mistral Large 2 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 61 versus 60.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Mistral Large 2?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 83. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Mistral Large 2?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.5 versus 79.1. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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