Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Qwen2.5-72B 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.
Qwen2.5-72B's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 83.5 against 74.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2023, 84 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.
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for Qwen2.5-72B.
Pick Qwen2.5-72B 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 need the larger 256K context window.
Qwen2.5-72B
57.7
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
55.3
Qwen2.5-72B
43.8
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
44.2
Qwen2.5-72B
66.7
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
60.4
Qwen2.5-72B
75.8
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
71.8
Qwen2.5-72B
59.8
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
55.8
Qwen2.5-72B
85
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
86
Qwen2.5-72B
80.8
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
81.5
Qwen2.5-72B
83.5
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
74.6
Qwen2.5-72B is ahead overall, 64 to 61. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2023, where the scores are 84 and 67.
Qwen2.5-72B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 59.8 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.
Qwen2.5-72B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 83.5 versus 74.6. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen2.5-72B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 75.8 versus 71.8. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen2.5-72B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 57.7 versus 55.3. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen2.5-72B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 66.7 versus 60.4. Inside this category, MMMU-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 85. 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 80.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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