# Atria Dawn Preview vs Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Atria Dawn Preview and Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/atria-dawn-preview-vs-nemotron-3-5-super-vl-120b-a12b
- Last updated: October 15, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Atria Dawn Preview leads by point estimate. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence. Choose using the category evidence and your own workload tests.

## Summary

- Atria Dawn Preview has the higher overall point estimate 67 to 49.51. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is τ³-bench results in Agentic, with scores of 41.2% and 18.9%.
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Atria Dawn Preview | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory | NVIDIA |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 1M |
| Overall Score | null | 49.51 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 13 | 19 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Atria Dawn Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B public-lane score: 44.2 (Estimated · #61/127)

| Benchmark | Atria Dawn Preview | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AutomationBench | 53.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | 77.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | 86.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 96.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 92.5% | 78% | Atria Dawn Preview |
| skillsBench | 66.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MLE-Bench Lite | 86.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 81.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 41.2% | 18.9% | Atria Dawn Preview |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 78.3% | 66.7% | Atria Dawn Preview |
| JobBench | 50.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ²-bench Airline | Coming soon | 76.5% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Atria Dawn Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Atria Dawn Preview | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 78.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 59.6% | 51.8% | Atria Dawn Preview |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 88.2% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 71.1% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 67.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Atria Dawn Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B public-lane score: 73 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Atria Dawn Preview | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CritPt | Coming soon | 10.9% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Atria Dawn Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B public-lane score: 62 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Atria Dawn Preview | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BabyVision | Coming soon | 29.6% | Coming soon |
| MMLongBench-Doc | Coming soon | 62.8% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 85.6% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 78.2% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 80.8% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Atria Dawn Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B public-lane score: 51.8 (Estimated · #73/184)

| Benchmark | Atria Dawn Preview | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 89.5% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 31.8% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 29.2% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Atria Dawn Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B public-lane score: 66.6 (#72/146)

| Benchmark | Atria Dawn Preview | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 70.9% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Atria Dawn Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Atria Dawn Preview | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Apex Shortlist | Coming soon | 88.4% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Atria Dawn Preview or Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B?

Atria Dawn Preview has the higher overall point estimate. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence.

### How many benchmarks does Atria Dawn Preview cover on BenchLM?

Atria Dawn Preview currently has 13 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B cover on BenchLM?

Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B currently has 19 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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