# Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B vs Phonon-2

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B and Phonon-2 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/nemotron-3-5-super-vl-120b-a12b-vs-phonon-2
- Last updated: October 15, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 0
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

No benchmark verdict yet: there is no shared sourced benchmark row for Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B and Phonon-2.

## Summary

- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B and Phonon-2 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 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | Phonon-2 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | NVIDIA | Fermion Research |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | N/A |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 49.51 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 19 | 0 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B public-lane score: 44.2 (Estimated · #61/127)
- Phonon-2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | Phonon-2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 66.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ²-bench Airline | 76.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 18.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 78% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Phonon-2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | Phonon-2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 88.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 71.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 67.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 51.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B public-lane score: 73 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Phonon-2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | Phonon-2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CritPt | 10.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B public-lane score: 62 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)
- Phonon-2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | Phonon-2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BabyVision | 29.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLongBench-Doc | 62.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| V* | 85.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | 78.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 80.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B public-lane score: 51.8 (Estimated · #73/184)
- Phonon-2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | Phonon-2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 89.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 31.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 29.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B public-lane score: 66.6 (#72/146)
- Phonon-2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | Phonon-2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 70.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Phonon-2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | Phonon-2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Apex Shortlist | 88.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Can I compare Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B and Phonon-2 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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