Model comparison
Falcon-40B vs Llama 3.2 90B
Llama 3.2 90B has enough public results to be ranked (#331); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation Institute
MetaSummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both.
Side by side
| Falcon-40B | Llama 3.2 90B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Meta |
| Noometry Index | — | 27.5 |
| Released | 2023-03-15 | 2024-09-24 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 12 | 9 |
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Category by category
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3.2 90B: 30.0 (#80)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 27.3% |
Reasoning Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#217)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 104.45 | 125.5 |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.4% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | — |
| LAMBADA | 77.3% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 76.9% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3.2 90B: 11.1 (#308)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.6% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 39.4% |
| GSM8K | 33.8% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#274)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 56.9% | 80.3% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 41% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 61.9% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.1% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3.2 90B: 25.4 (#124)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1000 |
| GeoBench | — | 52% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-40B better than Llama 3.2 90B?
Llama 3.2 90B has enough public results to be ranked (#331); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Llama 3.2 90B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 90B has 9.