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

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Which is better, Granite 4.2 3B or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?: Across 7 shared benchmarks, Granite 4.2 3B scores higher on 2 and Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B on 5. The widest gap is τ³-Bench, where Granite 4.2 3B scores 51 against 10.1.

Granite 4.2 3B vs Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Across 7 shared benchmarks, Granite 4.2 3B scores higher on 2 and Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B on 5. The widest gap is τ³-Bench, where Granite 4.2 3B scores 51 against 10.1.

IBMvsNVIDIA7 shared benchmarks2–5 head-to-head

Benchmark	Granite 4.2 3B	Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
AIME25 no tools	78.3	92.2
Arena-Hard-V2	35	73.9
GPQA Diamond	54.8	82.7
IFBench (prompt)	74.3	73.4
MMLU-Pro	67.8	83.8
scicode	24.1	42
τ³-Bench	51	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.