Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B vs Phi-4

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

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 61 to 42. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 71.8 against 31.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LongBench v2, 77 to 30. Phi-4 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 16K for Phi-4.

Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Phi-4 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.

Agentic

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.3

Phi-4

38.3

55
Terminal-Bench 2.0
44
59
BrowseComp
35
53
OSWorld-Verified
34

Coding

Phi-4

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

44.2

Phi-4

55

59
HumanEval
82.6
46
SWE-bench Verified
Coming soon
42
LiveCodeBench
Coming soon
46
SWE-bench Pro
55

Multimodal & Grounded

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

60.4

Phi-4

46.8

55
MMMU-Pro
54
67
OfficeQA Pro
38

Reasoning

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

71.8

Phi-4

31.3

64
SimpleQA
Coming soon
62
MuSR
Coming soon
88
BBH
Coming soon
77
LongBench v2
30
77
MRCRv2
33

Knowledge

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.8

Phi-4

53.8

68
MMLU
84.8
67
GPQA
56.1
65
SuperGPQA
Coming soon
63
OpenBookQA
Coming soon
75
MMLU-Pro
Coming soon
16
HLE
Coming soon
66
FrontierScience
52

Instruction Following

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

86
IFEval
Coming soon

Multilingual

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

81.5

Phi-4

67.2

86
MGSM
80.6
79
MMLU-ProX
60

Mathematics

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

67
AIME 2023
Coming soon
69
AIME 2024
Coming soon
68
AIME 2025
Coming soon
63
HMMT Feb 2023
Coming soon
65
HMMT Feb 2024
Coming soon
64
HMMT Feb 2025
Coming soon
66
BRUMO 2025
Coming soon
85
MATH-500
Coming soon

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Phi-4?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is ahead overall, 61 to 42. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LongBench v2, where the scores are 77 and 30.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Phi-4?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.8 versus 53.8. 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 Phi-4?

Phi-4 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 55 versus 44.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Phi-4?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 71.8 versus 31.3. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Phi-4?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.3 versus 38.3. 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 Phi-4?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.4 versus 46.8. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Phi-4?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.5 versus 67.2. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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