Model comparison

DBRX vs Llama 3.1-405B

Llama 3.1-405B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.7 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

DBRX Databricks

29.4

Rank #311 Confirmed

Llama 3.1-405B Meta

30.7

Rank #288 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 2 categories and Llama 3.1-405B in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama 3.1-405B leads 30.4 to 14.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 11.7% for DBRX and 49.8% for Llama 3.1-405B.

Side by side

DBRX and Llama 3.1-405B specifications
DBRXLlama 3.1-405B
ProviderDatabricksMeta
Noometry Index29.430.7
Released2024-03-272024-07-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked2142

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

DBRX: 32.9 (#266), Llama 3.1-405B: 33.1 (#262)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXLlama 3.1-405B
LMArena Coding11321291
WeirdML—21.4%
HumanEval+70.1%—
MBPP+55.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DBRX: —, Llama 3.1-405B: 21.0 (#140)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXLlama 3.1-405B
TheAgentCompany—7.4%
Cybench—7.5%

Reasoning DBRX leads

DBRX: 21.4 (#222), Llama 3.1-405B: 16.8 (#300)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXLlama 3.1-405B
LMArena Hard Prompts11131269
SimpleBench—23%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—45%
DTBench—61.4%
BIG-Bench Hard—82.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index—128.75
ForecastBench—59.9
HellaSwag—89.2%
PIQA—85.9%
WinoGrande—89.2%

Math DBRX leads

DBRX: 24.3 (#269), Llama 3.1-405B: 18.4 (#290)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXLlama 3.1-405B
LMArena Math11451281
MATH Level 511.7%49.8%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—9.7%
Omni-MATH—24.9%

Knowledge Llama 3.1-405B leads

DBRX: 14.9 (#294), Llama 3.1-405B: 30.4 (#227)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXLlama 3.1-405B
GPQA Diamond32.9%50.9%
LMArena Expert10761243
MMLU-Pro—72.3%
Confabulations—17.6%
GPQA (HELM)—52.2%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—95.3%
MMLU—84.5%
TriviaQA—82.7%

Multilingual Llama 3.1-405B leads

DBRX: 29.3 (#268), Llama 3.1-405B: 40.7 (#214)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXLlama 3.1-405B
LMArena Non-English10711248
LMArena Chinese10681242
LMArena French10961279
LMArena German10571252
LMArena Japanese9901208
LMArena Korean9931184
LMArena Russian10781265
LMArena Spanish10641260

Instruction Following Llama 3.1-405B leads

DBRX: 57.5 (#270), Llama 3.1-405B: 65.9 (#214)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXLlama 3.1-405B
LMArena Instruction Following11121259
IFEval—81.1%

Long Context Llama 3.1-405B leads

DBRX: 33.7 (#258), Llama 3.1-405B: 38.4 (#197)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXLlama 3.1-405B
LMArena Longer Query11121266

Writing & Preference Llama 3.1-405B leads

DBRX: 33.6 (#275), Llama 3.1-405B: 38.9 (#251)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXLlama 3.1-405B
LMArena Text11191284
LMArena Creative Writing11041262
LMArena Multi-Turn11111297
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—870
WildBench—78.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is DBRX better than Llama 3.1-405B?

Llama 3.1-405B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.7 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is DBRX or Llama 3.1-405B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (32.9 vs 33.1); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do DBRX and Llama 3.1-405B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-405B has 42.

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