o4-mini (high) vs Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

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

o4-mini (high) has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 63 versus 61. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

o4-mini (high)'s sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 82.9 against 74.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SimpleQA, 80 to 64. Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 200K for o4-mini (high).

Quick Verdict

Pick o4-mini (high) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you need the larger 256K context window.

Agentic

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

58.5

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.3

58
Terminal-Bench 2.0
55
64
BrowseComp
59
55
OSWorld-Verified
53

Coding

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

o4-mini (high)

38.7

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

44.2

74
HumanEval
59
45
SWE-bench Verified
46
34
LiveCodeBench
42
42
SWE-bench Pro
46

Multimodal & Grounded

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

68.3

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

60.4

66
MMMU-Pro
55
71
OfficeQA Pro
67

Reasoning

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

77.4

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

71.8

80
SimpleQA
64
78
MuSR
62
83
BBH
88
75
LongBench v2
77
74
MRCRv2
77

Knowledge

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

61.2

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.8

82
MMLU
68
82
GPQA
67
80
SuperGPQA
65
78
OpenBookQA
63
76
MMLU-Pro
75
13
HLE
16
73
FrontierScience
66

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

o4-mini (high)

83

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

86

83
IFEval
86

Multilingual

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

81.7

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

81.5

83
MGSM
86
81
MMLU-ProX
79

Mathematics

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

82.9

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

74.6

83
AIME 2023
67
85
AIME 2024
69
84
AIME 2025
68
79
HMMT Feb 2023
63
81
HMMT Feb 2024
65
80
HMMT Feb 2025
64
82
BRUMO 2025
66
84
MATH-500
85

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, o4-mini (high) or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

o4-mini (high) is ahead overall, 63 to 61. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SimpleQA, where the scores are 80 and 64.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, o4-mini (high) or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.2 versus 55.8. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, o4-mini (high) or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44.2 versus 38.7. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, o4-mini (high) or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 82.9 versus 74.6. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, o4-mini (high) or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 77.4 versus 71.8. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, o4-mini (high) or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.5 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, o4-mini (high) or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 68.3 versus 60.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, o4-mini (high) or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 83. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, o4-mini (high) or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.7 versus 81.5. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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