Qwen2.5-1M vs Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

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

Qwen2.5-1M is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 66 to 61. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen2.5-1M's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 64.7 against 55.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2023, 85 to 67. 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.

Qwen2.5-1M gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen2.5-1M if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority.

Agentic

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

64.7

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.3

65
Terminal-Bench 2.0
55
72
BrowseComp
59
59
OSWorld-Verified
53

Coding

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

44.8

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

44.2

76
HumanEval
59
47
SWE-bench Verified
46
40
LiveCodeBench
42
49
SWE-bench Pro
46

Multimodal & Grounded

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

68.4

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

60.4

63
MMMU-Pro
55
75
OfficeQA Pro
67

Reasoning

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

80.9

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

71.8

81
SimpleQA
64
79
MuSR
62
82
BBH
88
82
LongBench v2
77
81
MRCRv2
77

Knowledge

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

60.4

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.8

84
MMLU
68
83
GPQA
67
81
SuperGPQA
65
79
OpenBookQA
63
74
MMLU-Pro
75
10
HLE
16
74
FrontierScience
66

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Qwen2.5-1M

84

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

86

84
IFEval
86

Multilingual

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Qwen2.5-1M

80.4

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

81.5

81
MGSM
86
80
MMLU-ProX
79

Mathematics

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

83.6

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

74.6

85
AIME 2023
67
87
AIME 2024
69
86
AIME 2025
68
81
HMMT Feb 2023
63
83
HMMT Feb 2024
65
82
HMMT Feb 2025
64
84
BRUMO 2025
66
83
MATH-500
85

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Qwen2.5-1M or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Qwen2.5-1M is ahead overall, 66 to 61. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2023, where the scores are 85 and 67.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Qwen2.5-1M or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.4 versus 55.8. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Qwen2.5-1M or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44.8 versus 44.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Qwen2.5-1M or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 83.6 versus 74.6. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Qwen2.5-1M or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 80.9 versus 71.8. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Qwen2.5-1M or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 64.7 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, Qwen2.5-1M or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 68.4 versus 60.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Qwen2.5-1M or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

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, Qwen2.5-1M or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.5 versus 80.4. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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