Qwen3.5 397B vs Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

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.

Quick Verdict

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.

Agentic

Qwen3.5 397B

Qwen3.5 397B

56.9

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.3

58
Terminal-Bench 2.0
55
62
BrowseComp
59
52
OSWorld-Verified
53

Coding

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Qwen3.5 397B

40.7

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

44.2

75
HumanEval
59
42
SWE-bench Verified
46
39
LiveCodeBench
42
42
SWE-bench Pro
46

Multimodal & Grounded

Qwen3.5 397B

Qwen3.5 397B

61.4

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

60.4

56
MMMU-Pro
55
68
OfficeQA Pro
67

Reasoning

Qwen3.5 397B

Qwen3.5 397B

75.9

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

71.8

80
SimpleQA
64
78
MuSR
62
82
BBH
88
72
LongBench v2
77
71
MRCRv2
77

Knowledge

Qwen3.5 397B

Qwen3.5 397B

59.3

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.8

83
MMLU
68
82
GPQA
67
80
SuperGPQA
65
78
OpenBookQA
63
73
MMLU-Pro
75
10
HLE
16
71
FrontierScience
66

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Qwen3.5 397B

82

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

86

82
IFEval
86

Multilingual

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Qwen3.5 397B

78.8

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

81.5

82
MGSM
86
77
MMLU-ProX
79

Mathematics

Qwen3.5 397B

Qwen3.5 397B

81.6

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
81
MATH-500
85

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Qwen3.5 397B or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

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.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Qwen3.5 397B or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

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.

Which is better for coding, Qwen3.5 397B or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

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.

Which is better for math, Qwen3.5 397B or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

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.

Which is better for reasoning, Qwen3.5 397B or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

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.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Qwen3.5 397B or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

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.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Qwen3.5 397B or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

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.

Which is better for instruction following, Qwen3.5 397B or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

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.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Qwen3.5 397B or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

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.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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