o1-preview vs Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

o1-preview is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 77 to 61. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

o1-preview's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 64.6 against 44.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 86 to 59.

o1-preview 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 Super 120B A12B gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 200K for o1-preview.

Quick Verdict

Pick o1-preview if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 256K context window or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

o1-preview

o1-preview

75.4

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.3

77
Terminal-Bench 2.0
55
79
BrowseComp
59
71
OSWorld-Verified
53

Coding

o1-preview

o1-preview

64.6

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

44.2

86
HumanEval
59
65
SWE-bench Verified
46
60
LiveCodeBench
42
69
SWE-bench Pro
46

Multimodal & Grounded

o1-preview

o1-preview

75.6

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

60.4

72
MMMU-Pro
55
80
OfficeQA Pro
67

Reasoning

o1-preview

o1-preview

86.8

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

71.8

88
SimpleQA
64
86
MuSR
62
93
BBH
88
87
LongBench v2
77
83
MRCRv2
77

Knowledge

o1-preview

o1-preview

71.3

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.8

92
MMLU
68
90
GPQA
67
88
SuperGPQA
65
86
OpenBookQA
63
80
MMLU-Pro
75
32
HLE
16
83
FrontierScience
66

Instruction Following

o1-preview

o1-preview

88

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

86

88
IFEval
86

Multilingual

o1-preview

o1-preview

87.4

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

81.5

90
MGSM
86
86
MMLU-ProX
79

Mathematics

o1-preview

o1-preview

93.5

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

74.6

94
AIME 2023
67
96
AIME 2024
69
95
AIME 2025
68
90
HMMT Feb 2023
63
92
HMMT Feb 2024
65
91
HMMT Feb 2025
64
93
BRUMO 2025
66
94
MATH-500
85

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, o1-preview or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

o1-preview is ahead overall, 77 to 61. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 86 and 59.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, o1-preview or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

o1-preview has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.3 versus 55.8. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, o1-preview or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

o1-preview has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 64.6 versus 44.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, o1-preview or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

o1-preview has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 93.5 versus 74.6. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, o1-preview or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

o1-preview has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 86.8 versus 71.8. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, o1-preview or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

o1-preview has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.4 versus 55.3. 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, o1-preview or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

o1-preview has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.6 versus 60.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, o1-preview or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

o1-preview has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 88 versus 86. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, o1-preview or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

o1-preview has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 87.4 versus 81.5. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

Weekly LLM Benchmark Digest

Get notified when new models drop, benchmark scores change, or the leaderboard shifts. One email per week.

Free. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. We only store derived location metadata for consent routing.