Model comparison
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 4 categories and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct in 4 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads 35.5 to 22.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 55.1% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 48.2% for Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct.
- Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | NVIDIA | |
| Noometry Index | 33.2 | 37.6 |
| Released | 2024-05-14 | 2024-12-18 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 42 | 14 |
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Category by category
Coding Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 35.9 (#216)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | 38.7% |
| LMArena Coding | 1261 | 1272 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.1% | 48.2% |
| WeirdML | 24.9% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 75.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 67.5% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |
Reasoning Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 25.0 (#152)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1266 |
| DTBench | 53.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.36 | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |
Math Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 35.5 (#182)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1269 | 1271 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | 82.4% | — |
Knowledge Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 34.1 (#199)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | 1242 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | — |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | — |
| MMLU | 77.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |
Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 40.5 (#217)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | 1245 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | 1263 |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | 1227 |
| LMArena French | 1258 | — |
| LMArena German | 1262 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1221 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1243 | — |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 65.9 (#213)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | 1252 |
| IFEval | 83.1% | — |
Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#215)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | 1238 |
Writing & Preference Too close to call
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 48.4 (#203)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1283 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | 1269 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | 1275 |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct?
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct better for coding?
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct has 14.
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