Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 2 categories and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads 35.5 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 57.4% for Claude 3 Opus and 48.2% for Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct.
  • Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 Opus and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct specifications
Claude 3 OpusLlama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct
ProviderAnthropicNVIDIA
Noometry Index29.537.6
Released2024-02-292024-12-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4614

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Category by category

Coding Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 35.9 (#216)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLlama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%38.7%
LMArena Coding12641272
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%48.2%
WeirdML19.2%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLlama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 25.0 (#152)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLlama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts12451266
SimpleBench23.5%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
DTBench61.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA17%—
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 35.5 (#182)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLlama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct
LMArena Math12731271
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%—
LiveBench Math43.6%—
MATH Level 537.5%—

Knowledge Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 34.1 (#199)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLlama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct
LMArena Expert12231242
GPQA Diamond47.2%—
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLlama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Too close to call

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 40.5 (#217)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLlama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct
LMArena Non-English12581245
LMArena Chinese12481263
LMArena Russian12801227
LMArena French1275—
LMArena German1258—
LMArena Japanese1204—
LMArena Korean1187—
LMArena Spanish1246—

Instruction Following Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 65.9 (#213)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLlama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following12481252
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context Too close to call

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#215)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLlama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query12591238

Writing & Preference Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 48.4 (#203)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLlama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct
LMArena Text12621283
LMArena Creative Writing12351269
LMArena Multi-Turn12751275
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct?

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct better for coding?

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct has 14.

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