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Atria Dawn Preview vs Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B)

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 51.9 to 26.8.

Shanghai AI Laboratory · NVIDIA · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the overall LLM Stats Score 51.9 to 26.8, ranking #10 overall.

In the 1 individual benchmarks reported for both models, Atria Dawn Preview wins 1; this is a narrower head-to-head signal than the composite indexes.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Atria Dawn Preview

  • overall performance matters — it scores 51.9 and ranks #10 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning and coding — it leads those capability indexes
  • you value its reported benchmark strengths — it wins 1 of 1 exact shared results
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 2026

Choose Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B)

  • you want predictable pricing at $0.09/M input and $0.40/M output

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Atria Dawn Preview
Shanghai AI Laboratory
Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B)
NVIDIA
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
51.9
#10
26.8
#150
Reasoning
50.1
#12
25.1
#156
Coding
35.6
#29
13.3
#140
Agents
38.2
#10
-0.6
#176
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
1 of 1
0 of 1
Input price
— / M
$0.09 / M
Output price
— / M
$0.40 / M
Context window
—
262,144

Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

1 shared
Index
Atria Dawn Preview
Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B)
Tool use
28.3#17
2.8#166
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

12 reported for Atria Dawn Preview · 23 for Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B)

1 shared

Atria Dawn Preview outperforms in 1 benchmarks (BrowseComp), while Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) is better at 0 benchmarks.

Atria Dawn Preview significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

Tue Sep 22 2026 • llm-stats.com

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Model Size

Parameter count comparison

624.0B diff

Atria Dawn Preview has 624.0B more parameters than Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B), making it 520.0% larger.

Shanghai AI Laboratory
Atria Dawn Preview
744.0Bparameters
NVIDIA
Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B)
120.0Bparameters
744.0B
Atria Dawn Preview
120.0B
Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B)

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) specifies input context (262,144 tokens). Only Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) specifies output context (262,144 tokens).

Shanghai AI Laboratory
Atria Dawn Preview
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
NVIDIA
Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B)
Input262,144 tokens
Output262,144 tokens
Tue Sep 22 2026 • llm-stats.com

License

Usage and distribution terms

Atria Dawn Preview is licensed under MIT, while Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) uses NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement .

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Atria Dawn Preview

MIT

Open weights

Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B)

NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Atria Dawn Preview was released on 2026-09-11, while Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) was released on 2026-03-11.

Atria Dawn Preview is 6 months newer than Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B).

Atria Dawn Preview

Sep 11, 2026

1 weeks ago

6mo newer
Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B)

Mar 11, 2026

6 months ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2025-06-01, while Atria Dawn Preview's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B)'s training data extends to 2025-06-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without Atria Dawn Preview's cutoff date.

Atria Dawn Preview

—

Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B)

Jun 2025

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Atria Dawn Preview and Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Atria Dawn Preview
✓ Preferred
Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B)
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FAQ

Common questions about Atria Dawn Preview vs Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B).

Which is better, Atria Dawn Preview or Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B)?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 51.9 to 26.8. Atria Dawn Preview is made by Shanghai AI Laboratory and Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) is made by NVIDIA. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Atria Dawn Preview compare to Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) in benchmarks?

Atria Dawn Preview scores DeepSearchQA: 96.0%, BrowseComp: 92.5%, CyberGym: 86.5%, MLE-Bench Lite: 86.2%, WideSearch: 81.9%. Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) scores HMMT 2025: 94.7%, RULER: 91.8%, AIME 2025: 90.2%, WMT24++: 86.7%, MMLU-Pro: 83.7%.

What are the context window sizes for Atria Dawn Preview and Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B)?

Atria Dawn Preview supports an unknown number of tokens and Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) supports 262K tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Atria Dawn Preview and Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B)?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (51.9 vs 26.8), licensing (MIT vs NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement ). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Atria Dawn Preview and Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B)?

Atria Dawn Preview is developed by Shanghai AI Laboratory and Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B) is developed by NVIDIA.

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