Model comparison
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning vs phi-3-medium 14B
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.
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NVIDIA
MicrosoftSummary
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads 36.9 to 9.1.
Side by side
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | phi-3-medium 14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | NVIDIA | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 39.3 | 29.1 |
| Released | 2026-08-11 | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | — |
| Max output | 262K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.16 | — |
| Results tracked | 18 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 39.6 (#143), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.3 (#198)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1370 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 48.7% |
Reasoning Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 25.7 (#128), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1335 | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 81.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 121.18 |
| HellaSwag | — | 82.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 81.5% |
Math Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 34.7 (#156), phi-3-medium 14B: 25.2 (#249)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1355 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 17.6% |
Knowledge Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 36.9 (#154), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#301)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 27.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1354 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 91.6% |
| MMLU | — | 78% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 87.4% |
| TriviaQA | — | 73.9% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 44.0 (#175), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1292 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1356 | — |
| LMArena French | 1369 | — |
| LMArena German | 1280 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1213 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1233 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1257 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1321 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 69.8 (#166), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1317 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 39.9 (#160), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1312 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 48.5 (#198), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1324 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1254 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1280 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1327 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning better than phi-3-medium 14B?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.6 versus 36.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and phi-3-medium 14B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has 18 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.