Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs Llama 3.2 90B
Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation Institute
MetaSummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and Llama 3.2 90B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | Llama 3.2 90B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | 27.5 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | 2024-09-24 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 16 | 9 |
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Category by category
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Llama 3.2 90B: 30.0 (#80)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 27.3% |
Reasoning Llama 3.2 90B leads
Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#217)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | 125.5 |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | — |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Llama 3.2 90B: 11.1 (#308)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.6% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 39.4% |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#274)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 70.6% | 80.3% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 41% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Llama 3.2 90B: 25.4 (#124)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1000 |
| GeoBench | — | 52% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than Llama 3.2 90B?
Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Llama 3.2 90B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 90B has 9.