Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs Llama 2-70B

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.4

Rank #349 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and Llama 2-70B in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Falcon-180B leads 19.1 to 14.4.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and Llama 2-70B specifications
Falcon-180BLlama 2-70B
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteMeta
Noometry Index32.224.4
Released2023-09-062023-07-18
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked1635

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BLlama 2-70B
LMArena Coding—1079

Reasoning Falcon-180B leads

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BLlama 2-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts10071073
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13113.79
HellaSwag89%85.3%
LAMBADA79.8%78.9%
PIQA84.9%82.8%
WinoGrande87.1%80.2%
DTBench—41.6%
BIG-Bench Hard—64.9%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—50%
ForecastBench—51.4

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BLlama 2-70B
GSM8K54.4%69.6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—0%
LMArena Math—1091
MATH Level 5—3.3%

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BLlama 2-70B
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%78.3%
BoolQ89%88.6%
MMLU70.6%69.9%
OpenBookQA64.2%60.2%
GPQA Diamond—26.3%
LMArena Expert—1039
TriviaQA—87.6%

Multilingual Llama 2-70B leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BLlama 2-70B
LMArena Non-English10001045
LMArena Chinese—995
LMArena French—1090
LMArena German—1041
LMArena Japanese—927
LMArena Korean—964
LMArena Russian—1083
LMArena Spanish—1143

Instruction Following Llama 2-70B leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BLlama 2-70B
LMArena Instruction Following10471071

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BLlama 2-70B
LMArena Longer Query—1062

Writing & Preference Llama 2-70B leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BLlama 2-70B
LMArena Text10541115
LMArena Creative Writing10891075
LMArena Multi-Turn10131088

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than Llama 2-70B?

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Llama 2-70B share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.

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