# Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/granite-speech-5-0-470m-turboctc-vs-nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-nvfp4
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 0
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

No benchmark verdict yet: there is no shared sourced benchmark row for Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4.

## Summary

- Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 do not currently share a sourced benchmark row. The mirror therefore compares metadata, pricing, context windows, and each model's separately reported coverage without naming a benchmark winner.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | IBM | NVIDIA |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | N/A | 1M |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 21.01 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 0 | 13 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC public-lane score: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: 26.1 (Estimated · #146/152)

| Benchmark | Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 23.5% | Coming soon |
| PinchBench | Coming soon | 83.4% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 36.8% | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 9.5% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC public-lane score: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: 30.2 (Estimated · #137/151)

| Benchmark | Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 52.8% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 36.5% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 23.5% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 31.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC public-lane score: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: 54.8 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC public-lane score: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: 30.2 (Estimated · #176/183)

| Benchmark | Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | Coming soon | 75.6% | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 75.6% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 10.5% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 81.6% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC public-lane score: Coming soon
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 public-lane score: 72.6 (#64/123)

| Benchmark | Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 72.9% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Can I compare Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4 on BenchLM yet?

Not fully yet. BenchLM is tracking both models, but sourced benchmark coverage is still incomplete for a fair score-level comparison.

### Why does this page show "coming soon" values?

BenchLM only calls winners when public benchmark coverage is available on both sides of the comparison.

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