Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Qwen3.5 397B finishes one point ahead overall, 62 to 61. That is enough to call, but not enough to treat as a blowout. This matchup comes down to a few meaningful edges rather than one model dominating the board.
Qwen3.5 397B's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 81.6 against 74.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 75 to 59. 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 Qwen3.5 397B.
Pick Qwen3.5 397B 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.
Qwen3.5 397B
56.9
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
55.3
Qwen3.5 397B
40.7
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
44.2
Qwen3.5 397B
61.4
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
60.4
Qwen3.5 397B
75.9
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
71.8
Qwen3.5 397B
59.3
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
55.8
Qwen3.5 397B
82
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
86
Qwen3.5 397B
78.8
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
81.5
Qwen3.5 397B
81.6
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
74.6
Qwen3.5 397B is ahead overall, 62 to 61. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 75 and 59.
Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 59.3 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 40.7. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 81.6 versus 74.6. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 75.9 versus 71.8. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 56.9 versus 55.3. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.4 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 82. 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 78.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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