NV Chat Benchmark
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 52.7 leads since October 2026 Models answer chat prompts from an internal NVIDIA set. The Nemotron 3.5 Super VL card labels the score an LMArena v3 proxy.
The technical report calls it an internal chat benchmark developed at NVIDIA and gives no method details. The scoring type is a guess.
- Made by
- NVIDIA
- Released
- October 2026
- Kind
- Overall chat quality
- Level
- Everyday
- Scored
- Graded by a model
- Answers
- Open-ended
- Tasks
- Kept private
- Last in a launch post
- October 2026
- Last model added
- October 2026
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL leads with 52.7
Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.
- 1 Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 52.7
- 2 Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B 12.1
Source: Labs’ model cards
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | 52.7 | Oct 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 2 | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B | 12.1 | Oct 2026 | Lab model card |
Number one over time
Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.
Source: Labs’ model cards
Scores over time
All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.
Source: Labs’ model cards
One lab put it in a launch post in the last six months
Launch posts from every lab that has listed it, one tick per post. Tall colored ticks include it, and short gray ones leave it out.
| Date | Launch post | Score | As the post writes it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 2026 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | 52.7 | LMArena v3 proxy (NV Chat Benchmark in the technical report) |
2 system cards report it, from 1 lab
Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.
| Date | Document | Score | As the document writes it | Section |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 2026 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL technical report | 52.7 | NV Chat Benchmark, win rate judged by Gemini 3.1 Pro (Table 10) | Capabilities |
| Oct 15, 2026 | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B technical report | 12.1 | LM Arena Proxy, BF16 acc. (Table 22), the row Table 23 calls NV Chat Benchmark | Capabilities |
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