Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs Llama 3-8B

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.7 to 25.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B Google

29.7

Rank #292 Confirmed

Llama 3-8B Meta

25.3

Rank #338 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 3-8B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads 16.0 to 7.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 33% for Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and 26.1% for Llama 3-8B.
  • Llama 3-8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3-8B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index29.725.3
Released2024-10-032024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—8K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.14
Output $ / M tokens—$0.14
Results tracked2134

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 34.9 (#221), Llama 3-8B: 30.5 (#285)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3-8B
LMArena Coding12181152
BigCodeBench Instruct—31.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—36.9%
HumanEval+—56.7%
MBPP+—54.8%

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 19.2 (#242), Llama 3-8B: 13.8 (#321)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3-8B
LMArena Hard Prompts12101133
DTBench50%43.9%
Chess Puzzles—0%
Adversarial NLI—57.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—116.33
ForecastBench—58.6
WinoGrande—75.7%

Math Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 13.3 (#296), Llama 3-8B: 8.3 (#317)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3-8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.6%1.9%
LMArena Math12071151
MATH Level 5—6.1%

Knowledge Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#285), Llama 3-8B: 7.8 (#303)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3-8B
GPQA Diamond33%26.1%
LMArena Expert11851113
ARC (AI2) Challenge—82.8%
MMLU—68.8%
OpenBookQA—82.6%
TriviaQA—67.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 27.6 (#110), Llama 3-8B: —

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

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.6 (#224), Llama 3-8B: 31.0 (#256)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3-8B
LMArena Non-English12151098
LMArena Chinese12311076
LMArena French12331158
LMArena German12061104
LMArena Japanese1150967
LMArena Korean11401003
LMArena Russian12361109
LMArena Spanish12121172

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 63.1 (#231), Llama 3-8B: 58.7 (#255)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3-8B
LMArena Instruction Following11991127

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 36.9 (#220), Llama 3-8B: 34.2 (#246)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3-8B
LMArena Longer Query12191128

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 43.0 (#227), Llama 3-8B: 37.7 (#251)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BLlama 3-8B
LMArena Text12261166
LMArena Creative Writing12181150
LMArena Multi-Turn11851152

Frequently asked questions

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

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.7 to 25.3 on the Noometry Index.

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

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.9 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

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

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-8B has 34.

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