Model comparison
Nemotron 4 340b Instruct vs Qwen3 8B
Nemotron 4 340b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.3 to 33.3 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIA
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Nemotron 4 340b Instruct leads 22.4 to 16.1.
Side by side
| Nemotron 4 340b Instruct | Qwen3 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | NVIDIA | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 35.3 | 33.3 |
| Released | 2024-06-14 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.18 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 17 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Nemotron 4 340b Instruct leads
Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 34.6 (#223), Qwen3 8B: 33.4 (#245)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 4 340b Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 22.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1209 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: —, Qwen3 8B: 29.9 (#71)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 4 340b Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 42.6% |
Reasoning Nemotron 4 340b Instruct leads
Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 22.4 (#180), Qwen3 8B: 16.1 (#299)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 4 340b Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1202 | — |
| DTBench | — | 59.7% |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 136.17 |
Math Qwen3 8B leads
Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 31.7 (#193), Qwen3 8B: 33.3 (#176)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 4 340b Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 56.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1216 | — |
Knowledge Qwen3 8B leads
Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 31.4 (#212), Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#164)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 4 340b Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1171 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 38.0 (#228), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 4 340b Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1206 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1214 | — |
| LMArena French | 1196 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1128 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1148 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1219 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1195 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 63.3 (#227), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 4 340b Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1203 | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 37.1 (#216), Qwen3 8B: 37.8 (#205)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 4 340b Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.1% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1225 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 42.9 (#229), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 4 340b Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1225 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1203 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1214 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Nemotron 4 340b Instruct better than Qwen3 8B?
Nemotron 4 340b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.3 to 33.3 on the Noometry Index.
Is Nemotron 4 340b Instruct or Qwen3 8B better for coding?
Nemotron 4 340b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.6 versus 33.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Nemotron 4 340b Instruct and Qwen3 8B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nemotron 4 340b Instruct has 17 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.