Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B vs Nemotron 3 Super 100B

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 knowledge, where it averages 55.8 against 52.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is BBH, 88 to 83. Nemotron 3 Super 100B does hit back in agentic, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Nemotron 3 Super 100B gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Super 100B only becomes the better choice if agentic is the priority or you need the larger 1M context window.

Agentic

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.3

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

56.6

55
Terminal-Bench 2.0
56
59
BrowseComp
61
53
OSWorld-Verified
54

Coding

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

44.2

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

41.3

59
HumanEval
57
46
SWE-bench Verified
44
42
LiveCodeBench
38
46
SWE-bench Pro
44

Multimodal & Grounded

Tie

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

60.4

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

60.4

55
MMMU-Pro
55
67
OfficeQA Pro
67

Reasoning

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

71.8

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

69.5

64
SimpleQA
62
62
MuSR
60
88
BBH
83
77
LongBench v2
75
77
MRCRv2
75

Knowledge

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.8

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

52.8

68
MMLU
65
67
GPQA
64
65
SuperGPQA
62
63
OpenBookQA
60
75
MMLU-Pro
72
16
HLE
13
66
FrontierScience
63

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

86

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

84

86
IFEval
84

Multilingual

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

81.5

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

79.5

86
MGSM
84
79
MMLU-ProX
77

Mathematics

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

74.6

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

72.6

67
AIME 2023
65
69
AIME 2024
67
68
AIME 2025
66
63
HMMT Feb 2023
61
65
HMMT Feb 2024
63
64
HMMT Feb 2025
62
66
BRUMO 2025
64
85
MATH-500
83

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Nemotron 3 Super 100B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is ahead overall, 61 to 59. The biggest single separator in this matchup is BBH, where the scores are 88 and 83.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Nemotron 3 Super 100B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.8 versus 52.8. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Nemotron 3 Super 100B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44.2 versus 41.3. 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 Super 100B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 74.6 versus 72.6. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Nemotron 3 Super 100B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 71.8 versus 69.5. Inside this category, BBH is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Nemotron 3 Super 100B?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 56.6 versus 55.3. Inside this category, BrowseComp 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 Super 100B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B and Nemotron 3 Super 100B are effectively tied for multimodal and grounded tasks here, both landing at 60.4 on average.

Which is better for instruction following, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Nemotron 3 Super 100B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 84. 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 Super 100B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.5 versus 79.5. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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