Model comparison
Nemotron 3 Ultra vs phi-3-medium 14B
Nemotron 3 Ultra is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIA
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Nemotron 3 Ultra scores higher in 3 categories and phi-3-medium 14B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Nemotron 3 Ultra leads 52.5 to 9.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 85.4% for Nemotron 3 Ultra and 27.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.
Side by side
| Nemotron 3 Ultra | phi-3-medium 14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | NVIDIA | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 42.5 | 29.7 |
| Released | 2026-06-04 | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | — |
| Max output | 128K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.60 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2.40 | — |
| Results tracked | 30 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding Nemotron 3 Ultra leads
Nemotron 3 Ultra: 38.1 (#182), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode | 13.6% | — |
| SciCode | 40.3% | — |
| WeirdML | 43.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1468 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 48.7% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Nemotron 3 Ultra: 23.4 (#126), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 22.7% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Nemotron 3 Ultra: 31.0 (#82), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 146.17 | 121.23 |
| CritPt | 3.1% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 12% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1452 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 20% | — |
| DTBench | 90.1% | — |
| LMCA | 36.9% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 81.4% |
| HellaSwag | — | 82.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 81.5% |
Math Nemotron 3 Ultra leads
Nemotron 3 Ultra: 35.3 (#187), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 86.7% | — |
| ProofBench | 2% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1457 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 17.6% |
Knowledge Nemotron 3 Ultra leads
Nemotron 3 Ultra: 52.5 (#61), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 85.4% | 27.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1472 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 91.6% |
| MMLU | — | 78% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 87.4% |
| TriviaQA | — | 73.9% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Nemotron 3 Ultra: 53.5 (#64), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1427 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1497 | — |
| LMArena French | 1472 | — |
| LMArena German | 1471 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1386 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1417 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1454 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Nemotron 3 Ultra: 74.7 (#88), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1418 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Nemotron 3 Ultra: 43.9 (#81), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1437 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Nemotron 3 Ultra: 66.3 (#36), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1445 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1398 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1692 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1411 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Nemotron 3 Ultra better than phi-3-medium 14B?
Nemotron 3 Ultra is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is Nemotron 3 Ultra or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?
Nemotron 3 Ultra scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.1 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Nemotron 3 Ultra and phi-3-medium 14B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nemotron 3 Ultra has 30 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.