Model comparison

Deepseek Coder v2 vs Llama 2-70B

Deepseek Coder v2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Deepseek Coder v2 DeepSeek

35.9

Rank #220 Confirmed

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.4

Rank #349 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Deepseek Coder v2 scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-70B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Deepseek Coder v2 leads 34.9 to 8.1.

Side by side

Deepseek Coder v2 and Llama 2-70B specifications
Deepseek Coder v2Llama 2-70B
ProviderDeepSeekMeta
Noometry Index35.924.4
Released2024-06-172023-07-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked2435

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Category by category

Coding Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 38.1 (#183), Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Llama 2-70B
LMArena Coding12511079
BigCodeBench Instruct48.2%—
BigCodeBench Complete59.7%—
HumanEval+82.3%—
MBPP+75.1%—

Reasoning Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 23.6 (#176), Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Llama 2-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts12071073
WinoGrande83.7%80.2%
DTBench—41.6%
BIG-Bench Hard—64.9%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—50%
Epoch Capabilities Index—113.79
ForecastBench—51.4
HellaSwag—85.3%
LAMBADA—78.9%
PIQA—82.8%

Math Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 34.9 (#190), Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Llama 2-70B
LMArena Math12411091
GSM8K94.5%69.6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—0%
MATH Level 5—3.3%

Knowledge Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 32.3 (#212), Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Llama 2-70B
LMArena Expert11811039
ARC (AI2) Challenge64.3%78.3%
GPQA Diamond—26.3%
BoolQ—88.6%
MMLU—69.9%
OpenBookQA—60.2%
TriviaQA—87.6%

Multilingual Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 36.3 (#240), Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Llama 2-70B
LMArena Non-English11821045
LMArena Chinese1201995
LMArena French11851090
LMArena German11641041
LMArena Japanese1126927
LMArena Korean1104964
LMArena Russian11881083
LMArena Spanish11531143

Instruction Following Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 61.7 (#242), Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Llama 2-70B
LMArena Instruction Following11801071

Long Context Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 37.0 (#224), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Llama 2-70B
LMArena Longer Query12191062

Writing & Preference Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 38.2 (#253), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Llama 2-70B
LMArena Text11911115
LMArena Creative Writing11201075
LMArena Multi-Turn11771088

Frequently asked questions

Is Deepseek Coder v2 better than Llama 2-70B?

Deepseek Coder v2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Deepseek Coder v2 or Llama 2-70B better for coding?

Deepseek Coder v2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.1 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Deepseek Coder v2 and Llama 2-70B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Deepseek Coder v2 has 24 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.

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