Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 64 versus 61. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 62.8 against 55.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is BrowseComp, 69 to 59. Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B does hit back in instruction following, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B gives you the larger context window at 10M, compared with 256K for Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B.
Pick Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B
62.8
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
55.3
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B
43.8
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
44.2
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B
66.9
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
60.4
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B
77.2
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
71.8
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B
57
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
55.8
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B
84
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
86
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B
79.7
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
81.5
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B
78
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
74.6
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B is ahead overall, 64 to 61. The biggest single separator in this matchup is BrowseComp, where the scores are 69 and 59.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 57 versus 55.8. 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 43.8. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 78 versus 74.6. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 77.2 versus 71.8. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 62.8 versus 55.3. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 66.9 versus 60.4. Inside this category, OfficeQA 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 84. 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 79.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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