Reasoning
No current rating
Mathematical and scientific problem solving.
Awaiting a qualified category score
Model profile / NVIDIA
NVIDIA's open-weight 30B-total, 3B-active hybrid MoE reasoning and chat model, released as BF16 reference weights with optimized NVFP4 deployment offerings and up to a 1M-token context.
Four areas of evidence
Mathematical and scientific problem solving.
Software engineering and programming.
Factual reliability and instruction following.
Tool use, workflows and professional tasks.
Current index snapshot · 2026-09-16. Each category uses its own scale; scores across categories are not directly comparable. Counts describe published catalogue evidence. A point lead does not establish superiority.
Performance in context
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No current index estimate. Available benchmark measurements and source records are retained below.
| Benchmark | Result | Published configuration | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Long Context ReasoningSource-native version | 52% | NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16; NVIDIA release evaluation; temperature=1.0; top_p=0.95NVIDIA NeMo Gym / NeMo Evaluator SDK consistent release harness | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B BF16 model card ↗Observed 2026-08-11 · checked 2026-08-12provider-reported · ranking-eligible |
| AA-OmniscienceSource-native version | 17.5 index | NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16; NVIDIA release evaluation; temperature=1.0; top_p=0.95NVIDIA NeMo Gym / NeMo Evaluator SDK consistent release harness | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B BF16 model card ↗Observed 2026-08-11 · checked 2026-08-12provider-reported · reference-only |
| BrowseCompSource-native version | 36.97% | NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16; NVIDIA release evaluation; temperature=1.0; top_p=0.95NVIDIA NeMo Gym / NeMo Evaluator SDK consistent release harness | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B BF16 model card ↗Observed 2026-08-11 · checked 2026-08-12provider-reported · ranking-eligible |
| GDPval-AA v2 (Elo)v2 | 832 Elo | NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16; NVIDIA release evaluation; temperature=1.0; top_p=0.95NVIDIA NeMo Gym / NeMo Evaluator SDK consistent release harness | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B BF16 model card ↗Observed 2026-08-11 · checked 2026-08-12provider-reported · reference-only |
| GPQA DiamondSource-native version | 75.44% | NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16; NVIDIA release evaluation; temperature=1.0; top_p=0.95NVIDIA NeMo Gym / NeMo Evaluator SDK consistent release harness | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B BF16 model card ↗Observed 2026-08-11 · checked 2026-08-12provider-reported · ranking-eligible |
| Humanity's Last Exam without toolsSource-native version | 11.72% | NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16; NVIDIA release evaluation; temperature=1.0; top_p=0.95NVIDIA NeMo Gym / NeMo Evaluator SDK consistent release harness | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B BF16 model card ↗Observed 2026-08-11 · checked 2026-08-12provider-reported · reference-only |
| IFBenchSource-native version | 71.88% | NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16; NVIDIA release evaluation; temperature=1.0; top_p=0.95NVIDIA NeMo Gym / NeMo Evaluator SDK consistent release harness | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B BF16 model card ↗Observed 2026-08-11 · checked 2026-08-12provider-reported · reference-only |
| MMLU-ProSource-native version | 81.94% | NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16; NVIDIA release evaluation; temperature=1.0; top_p=0.95NVIDIA NeMo Gym / NeMo Evaluator SDK consistent release harness | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B BF16 model card ↗Observed 2026-08-11 · checked 2026-08-12provider-reported · ranking-eligible |
| PinchBenchSource-native version | 85.37% | NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16; NVIDIA release evaluation; temperature=1.0; top_p=0.95NVIDIA NeMo Gym / NeMo Evaluator SDK consistent release harness | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B BF16 model card ↗Observed 2026-08-11 · checked 2026-08-12provider-reported · reference-only |
| SciCodeSource-native version | 32.6% | NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16; NVIDIA release evaluation; temperature=1.0; top_p=0.95NVIDIA NeMo Gym / NeMo Evaluator SDK consistent release harness | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B BF16 model card ↗Observed 2026-08-11 · checked 2026-08-12provider-reported · reference-only |
No specialist task observations retained for this model.