Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) vs Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

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

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 75 to 61. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)'s sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 74.8 against 55.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2023, 93 to 67.

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning).

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 256K context window or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

74.8

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.3

77
Terminal-Bench 2.0
55
78
BrowseComp
59
70
OSWorld-Verified
53

Coding

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

62.3

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

44.2

83
HumanEval
59
60
SWE-bench Verified
46
60
LiveCodeBench
42
65
SWE-bench Pro
46

Multimodal & Grounded

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

70.8

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

60.4

64
MMMU-Pro
55
79
OfficeQA Pro
67

Reasoning

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

84.2

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

71.8

87
SimpleQA
64
85
MuSR
62
91
BBH
88
80
LongBench v2
77
82
MRCRv2
77

Knowledge

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

70.1

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.8

91
MMLU
68
89
GPQA
67
87
SuperGPQA
65
85
OpenBookQA
63
81
MMLU-Pro
75
29
HLE
16
81
FrontierScience
66

Instruction Following

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

89

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

86

89
IFEval
86

Multilingual

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

87.8

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

81.5

91
MGSM
86
86
MMLU-ProX
79

Mathematics

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

92.5

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

74.6

93
AIME 2023
67
95
AIME 2024
69
94
AIME 2025
68
89
HMMT Feb 2023
63
91
HMMT Feb 2024
65
90
HMMT Feb 2025
64
92
BRUMO 2025
66
93
MATH-500
85

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 75 to 61. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2023, where the scores are 93 and 67.

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

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.1 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 (Reasoning) or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 62.3 versus 44.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 92.5 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 (Reasoning) or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 84.2 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 (Reasoning) or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.8 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 (Reasoning) or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.8 versus 60.4. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89 versus 86. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 87.8 versus 81.5. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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