Model comparison

Falcon 2 11B vs Llama 3-8B

Llama 3-8B has enough public results to be ranked (#344); Falcon 2 11B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both.

Side by side

Falcon 2 11B and Llama 3-8B specifications
Falcon 2 11BLlama 3-8B
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteMeta
Noometry Index—25.5
Released2024-05-092024-04-18
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked534

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Llama 3-8B: 31.0 (#289)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BLlama 3-8B
BigCodeBench Instruct—31.9%
LMArena Coding—1152
BigCodeBench Complete—36.9%
HumanEval+—56.7%
MBPP+—54.8%

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Llama 3-8B: 14.3 (#326)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BLlama 3-8B
Epoch Capabilities Index109.56116.45
WinoGrande78.3%75.7%
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1133
DTBench—43.9%
Adversarial NLI—57.3%
ForecastBench—58.6
HellaSwag82.9%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Llama 3-8B: 8.8 (#323)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BLlama 3-8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—1.9%
LMArena Math—1151
MATH Level 5—6.1%
GSM8K53.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Llama 3-8B: 7.8 (#308)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BLlama 3-8B
MMLU58.4%68.8%
GPQA Diamond—26.1%
LMArena Expert—1113
ARC (AI2) Challenge—82.8%
OpenBookQA—82.6%
TriviaQA—67.7%

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Llama 3-8B: 30.8 (#261)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BLlama 3-8B
LMArena Non-English—1098
LMArena Chinese—1076
LMArena French—1159
LMArena German—1104
LMArena Japanese—967
LMArena Korean—1004
LMArena Russian—1109
LMArena Spanish—1173

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Llama 3-8B: 58.4 (#260)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BLlama 3-8B
LMArena Instruction Following—1127

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Llama 3-8B: 34.2 (#251)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BLlama 3-8B
LMArena Longer Query—1128

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Llama 3-8B: 37.5 (#256)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BLlama 3-8B
LMArena Text—1166
LMArena Creative Writing—1150
LMArena Multi-Turn—1152

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon 2 11B better than Llama 3-8B?

Llama 3-8B has enough public results to be ranked (#344); Falcon 2 11B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon 2 11B and Llama 3-8B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon 2 11B has 5 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-8B has 34.

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