Which is better, Granite 4.2 8B or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?

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Which is better, Granite 4.2 8B or Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B?: Across 11 shared benchmarks, Granite 4.2 8B scores higher on 3 and Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B on 8. The widest gap is τ³-Bench, where Granite 4.2 8B scores 66.3 against 10.1.

Granite 4.2 8B vs Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Across 11 shared benchmarks, Granite 4.2 8B scores higher on 3 and Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B on 8. The widest gap is τ³-Bench, where Granite 4.2 8B scores 66.3 against 10.1.

IBMvsNVIDIA11 shared benchmarks3–8 head-to-head

Benchmark	Granite 4.2 8B	Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
AIME25 no tools	86.7	92.2
Arena-Hard-V2	65.2	73.9
gdpval	1189	9.9
GPQA Diamond	64.1	82.7
IFBench (prompt)	79.3	73.4
MMLU-Pro	74	83.8
scicode	36.1	42
SWE-bench Multilingual	30.8	45.8
SWE-bench Verified	47.7	53.7
Terminal-Bench 2.1	20.6	38.6
τ³-Bench	66.3	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.