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

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 and Qwen3.8 Max 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-max
- Last updated: October 15, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 9
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.8 Max 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 Max leads overall 69.63 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 91.2 for Qwen3.8 Max.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is BabyVision in Multimodal & Grounded, with scores of 29.5% and 82.0%.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Qwen3.8 Max |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | NVIDIA | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Overall Score | null | 69.63 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 18 | 66 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 67.6 (Supported · #14/127)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 60.8% | 86.6% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| 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 | 74.8% | Coming soon |
| JobBench | Coming soon | 53.4% | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | Coming soon | 70.2% | Coming soon |
| Agents' Last Exam | Coming soon | 52.4% | Coming soon |
| AutomationBench | Coming soon | 27.3% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | Coming soon | 72.5% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 81.9% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 56.2% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 86.1% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | Coming soon | 19.4% | Coming soon |
| WebArena-Verified | Coming soon | 66.8% | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | Coming soon | 85.3% | Coming soon |
| MobileWorld | Coming soon | 77.8% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 67.4% | Coming soon |
| Hermes Index | Coming soon | 36.2% | Coming soon |
| Hermes Bench | Coming soon | 70.5% | Coming soon |
| MazeBench | Coming soon | 0% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 53.6 (Supported · #34/150)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 87.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 71.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 67% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 51.3% | 67.7% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 56.6% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 55.9% | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE | Coming soon | 73.5% | Coming soon |
| MLS-Bench Lite | Coming soon | 41.0% | Coming soon |
| PaperBench | Coming soon | 93.0% | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | Coming soon | 81.2% | Coming soon |
| OpenHarmony Bench | Coming soon | 60.8% | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | Coming soon | 15.8% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 87.9% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 85.6% | Coming soon |
| Bug Hunt Bench | Coming soon | 25.7 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 Max public-lane score: 87.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 92.9% | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 66.3% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 public-lane score: 59.5 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 91.2 (#4/54)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BabyVision | 29.5% | 82.0% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| MMLongBench-Doc | 62.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| V* | 86.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | 77.8% | 95.2% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| CharXiv | 79.9% | 93.5% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 82.3% | Coming soon |
| MathVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 97.7% | Coming soon |
| BabyVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 91.3% | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | Coming soon | 24.0% | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench w/ Python | Coming soon | 49.0% | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 84.5% | Coming soon |
| Vision2Web | Coming soon | 69.0% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | Coming soon | 88.4% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 92.1% | Coming soon |
| OCRBench V2 | Coming soon | 74.2% | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | Coming soon | 79.6% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 88.0% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 77.8% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 75.0% | Coming soon |
| PerceptionBench | Coming soon | 63.5% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | Coming soon | 90.4% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 88.7% | Coming soon |
| MMVU | Coming soon | 82.4% | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | Coming soon | 90.8% | Coming soon |
| LVBench | Coming soon | 81.8% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 68.2 (Supported · #24/184)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 89.9% | 92.6% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| HLE w/o tools | 31.4% | 43.6% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| HLE | 29% | 43.6% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 92.6% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 93.7% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 88.6% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Qwen3.8 Max
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 public-lane score: 68.1 (#71/146)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 94.7 (#2/146)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 71.5% | 82.8% | Qwen3.8 Max |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 78.9 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Apex Shortlist | 89.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 74.737% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | Coming soon | 46.341% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

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

Qwen3.8 Max is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

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

The widest category gap is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 59.5 for Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B NVFP4 and 91.2 for Qwen3.8 Max.

### 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 Max cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.8 Max currently has 66 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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