# Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 vs Ripple-65B Preview

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 and Ripple-65B Preview across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/nemotron-3-5-bolt-74b-a9b-bf16-vs-ripple-65b-preview
- Last updated: November 4, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ripple-65B Preview only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 leads overall 59 to 0.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.1 in Agentic, with scores of 53.9% and 80.5%.
- Ripple-65B Preview also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Ripple-65B Preview |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | NVIDIA | Ricursive Intelligence |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 1M |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 8 | 17 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ripple-65B Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Ripple-65B Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 53.9% | 80.5% | Ripple-65B Preview |
| τ³-bench results | 17.0% | 31.3% | Ripple-65B Preview |
| BrowseComp | 70% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PinchBench | 90.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 55.6% | 71.7% | Ripple-65B Preview |
| WebArena | 50.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AutomationBench | Coming soon | 36.4% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ripple-65B Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Ripple-65B Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 80.5% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 76.5% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 61.4% | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 44.3% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 39.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: 71.3 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Ripple-65B Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ripple-65B Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Ripple-65B Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 88.8% | 85.2% | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 |
| HLE w/o tools | 28.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU | Coming soon | 89.6% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 84.2% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ripple-65B Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Ripple-65B Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 79.2% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ripple-65B Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Ripple-65B Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2024 | Coming soon | 97.1% | Coming soon |
| AIME 2025 | Coming soon | 98.3% | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 95.0% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 90.5% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 or Ripple-65B Preview?

Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 cover on BenchLM?

Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 currently has 8 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Ripple-65B Preview cover on BenchLM?

Ripple-65B Preview currently has 17 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

## Related Comparisons

- [Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 vs Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B](/compare/nemotron-3-5-bolt-74b-a9b-vs-nemotron-3-5-bolt-74b-a9b-bf16)
- [Ripple-65B Preview vs Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B](/compare/nemotron-3-5-bolt-74b-a9b-vs-ripple-65b-preview)
- [Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 vs Gemini 4 Carbon](/compare/gemini-4-carbon-vs-nemotron-3-5-bolt-74b-a9b-bf16)
- [Ripple-65B Preview vs Gemini 4 Carbon](/compare/gemini-4-carbon-vs-ripple-65b-preview)

## Explore More

- [Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 profile](/models/nemotron-3-5-bolt-74b-a9b-bf16)
- [Ripple-65B Preview profile](/models/ripple-65b-preview)
- [Compare Pricing](/llm-pricing)
- [Alternative Finder](/tools/alternative-finder)
- [LLM Selector](/tools/llm-selector)
- [Overall Rankings](/best/overall)