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Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs Llama 3-70B

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B Google

29.9

Rank #301 Confirmed

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 5 categories and Llama 3-70B in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads 38.5 to 33.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 33% for Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and 40.6% for Llama 3-70B.
  • Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3-70B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index29.928.8
Released2024-10-032024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked2131

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 35.5 (#225), Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3-70B
LMArena Coding12181206
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.5%
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: —, Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3-70B
Cybench—5%

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244), Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts12091195
DTBench50%54.2%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—35.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—122.93
ForecastBench—57.1
WinoGrande—83.5%

Math Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302), Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.6%4.3%
LMArena Math12071218
MATH Level 5—22.6%

Knowledge Llama 3-70B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3-70B
GPQA Diamond33%40.6%
LMArena Expert11851149
MMLU—79.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115), Llama 3-70B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3-70B
LMArena Vision1044—

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229), Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English12151142
LMArena Chinese12311114
LMArena French12341232
LMArena German12061169
LMArena Japanese11501017
LMArena Korean11401017
LMArena Russian12361159
LMArena Spanish12121241

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 62.8 (#236), Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following11991194

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query12191174

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232), Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3-70B
LMArena Text12261221
LMArena Creative Writing12181210
LMArena Multi-Turn11851223

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than Llama 3-70B?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B or Llama 3-70B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (35.5 vs 35.8); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Llama 3-70B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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