Which is better, Granite 4.2 30B or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

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Which is better, Granite 4.2 30B or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?: Across 11 shared benchmarks, Granite 4.2 30B scores higher on 4 and Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B on 7. The widest gap is τ³-Bench, where Granite 4.2 30B scores 68 against 10.1.

Granite 4.2 30B vs Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Across 11 shared benchmarks, Granite 4.2 30B scores higher on 4 and Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B on 7. The widest gap is τ³-Bench, where Granite 4.2 30B scores 68 against 10.1.

IBMvsNVIDIA11 shared benchmarks4–7 head-to-head

Benchmark	Granite 4.2 30B	Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
AIME25 no tools	89.2	92.2
Arena-Hard-V2	67.9	73.9
gdpval	1225	9.9
GPQA Diamond	66.4	82.7
IFBench (prompt)	74.7	73.4
MMLU-Pro	77.6	83.8
scicode	38.8	42
SWE-bench Multilingual	41.9	45.8
SWE-bench Verified	57	53.7
Terminal-Bench 2.1	29.2	38.6
τ³-Bench	68	10.1

Best tracked score per model per benchmark (default configuration; source-attributed). ↓ marks lower-is-better metrics. Open either model for its full surface, provenance and pricing.