Head-to-head comparison across 3benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B
56
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
67
Verified leaderboard positions: Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B unranked · Qwen3.6-35B-A3B #20
Pick Qwen3.6-35B-A3B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
Coding
+13.4 difference
Knowledge
+15.0 difference
Multimodal
+0.2 difference
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
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256K
262K
Pick Qwen3.6-35B-A3B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 67 to 56. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 66.9 against 53.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 63.2% to 80.4%. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 256K for Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 67 to 56. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 63.2% and 80.4%.
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.5 versus 60.5. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 66.9 versus 53.5. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.3 versus 76.1. Inside this category, MMMU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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