Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B vs Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

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 45. 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 22. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 42 to 16.

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 32K for Nemotron 3 Nano 30B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Nano 30B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Agentic

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.3

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

39.6

55
Terminal-Bench 2.0
38
59
BrowseComp
43
53
OSWorld-Verified
39

Coding

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

44.2

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

22

59
HumanEval
49
46
SWE-bench Verified
26
42
LiveCodeBench
16
46
SWE-bench Pro
27

Multimodal & Grounded

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

60.4

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

45.2

55
MMMU-Pro
38
67
OfficeQA Pro
54

Reasoning

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

71.8

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

54

64
SimpleQA
54
62
MuSR
52
88
BBH
72
77
LongBench v2
51
77
MRCRv2
51

Knowledge

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.8

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

43.8

68
MMLU
57
67
GPQA
56
65
SuperGPQA
54
63
OpenBookQA
52
75
MMLU-Pro
65
16
HLE
1
66
FrontierScience
54

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

86

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

78

86
IFEval
78

Multilingual

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

81.5

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

71.8

86
MGSM
75
79
MMLU-ProX
70

Mathematics

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

74.6

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

63.7

67
AIME 2023
57
69
AIME 2024
59
68
AIME 2025
58
63
HMMT Feb 2023
53
65
HMMT Feb 2024
55
64
HMMT Feb 2025
54
66
BRUMO 2025
56
85
MATH-500
73

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is ahead overall, 61 to 45. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 42 and 16.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.8 versus 43.8. 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 Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44.2 versus 22. 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 Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 74.6 versus 63.7. 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 Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 71.8 versus 54. 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 Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.3 versus 39.6. 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 Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.4 versus 45.2. 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 Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 78. 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 Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.5 versus 71.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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