# Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 vs Qwen3.8-27B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 and Qwen3.8-27B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/nemotron-3-5-super-vl-120b-a12b-nvfp4-vs-qwen3-8-27b
- Last updated: October 15, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 10
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.8-27B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Qwen3.8-27B leads overall 59.6 to 58.
- The clearest category separation is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 59.5 for Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 and 84.4 for Qwen3.8-27B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is BabyVision in Multimodal & Grounded, with scores of 29.5% and 65.7%.
- Qwen3.8-27B 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 NVFP4 also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Qwen3.8-27B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | NVIDIA | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 262K |
| Overall Score | null | 59.6 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 18 | 34 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 63.4 (Supported · #20/127)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Qwen3.8-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 60.8% | 73.0% | Qwen3.8-27B |
| τ²-bench Airline | 75.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 17.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 77.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CoWorkBench | Coming soon | 70.7% | Coming soon |
| JobBench | Coming soon | 33.4% | Coming soon |
| Agents' Last Exam | Coming soon | 42.9% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 84.3% | Coming soon |
| WebArena-Verified | Coming soon | 64.8% | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | Coming soon | 81.9% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 58.4% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 46.6 (Supported · #51/150)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Qwen3.8-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 87.4% | 90.3% | Qwen3.8-27B |
| SWE-bench Verified | 71.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 67% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 51.3% | 61.7% | Qwen3.8-27B |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 73.0% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 42.3% | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 42.2% | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | Coming soon | 82.6% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 84.0% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 86.0% | Coming soon |
| Bug Hunt Bench | Coming soon | 15.0 fixes | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 public-lane score: 72.4 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 82.2 (#9/28)

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 public-lane score: 59.5 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 84.4 (#13/54)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Qwen3.8-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BabyVision | 29.5% | 65.7% | Qwen3.8-27B |
| MMLongBench-Doc | 62.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| V* | 86.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | 77.8% | 90.0% | Qwen3.8-27B |
| CharXiv | 79.9% | 90.2% | Qwen3.8-27B |
| MathVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 94.6% | Coming soon |
| BabyVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 85.6% | Coming soon |
| Vision2Web | Coming soon | 62.9% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | Coming soon | 83.7% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 91.1% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 85.9% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 65.5% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 51.3 (Supported · #76/184)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Qwen3.8-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 89.9% | 89.2% | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 |
| HLE w/o tools | 31.4% | 30.8% | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 |
| HLE | 29% | 30.8% | Qwen3.8-27B |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 89.2% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 88.9% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 84.3% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Qwen3.8-27B
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 public-lane score: 68.1 (#71/146)
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 86.9 (#40/146)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Qwen3.8-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 71.5% | 79.5% | Qwen3.8-27B |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Qwen3.8-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Apex Shortlist | 89.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 or Qwen3.8-27B?

Qwen3.8-27B is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 and Qwen3.8-27B?

The widest category gap is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 59.5 for Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 and 84.4 for Qwen3.8-27B.

### How many benchmarks does Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 cover on BenchLM?

Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 currently has 18 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.8-27B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.8-27B currently has 34 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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