Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Llama 3.2 90B

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

33.2

Rank #246 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 90B Meta

27.5

Rank #331 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 4 categories and Llama 3.2 90B in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 22.1 to 11.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GeoBench: 76% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 52% for Llama 3.2 90B.
  • Llama 3.2 90B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 3.2 90B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index33.227.5
Released2024-05-142024-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked429

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 3.2 90B
WeirdML24.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%—
LMArena Coding1261—
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%—
HumanEval+75.6%—
MBPP+67.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Llama 3.2 90B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), Llama 3.2 90B: 30.0 (#80)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 3.2 90B
BALROG14.6%27.3%

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#217)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 3.2 90B
Epoch Capabilities Index129.36125.5
EnigmaEval—0.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts1257—
DTBench53.8%—
ForecastBench53.9—
PIQA87.5%—

Math Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Llama 3.2 90B: 11.1 (#308)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 3.2 90B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%2.6%
MATH Level 561.9%39.4%
Omni-MATH30.4%—
LMArena Math1269—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%—
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#274)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 3.2 90B
GPQA Diamond47.3%41%
MMLU77.9%80.3%
MMLU-Pro67.8%—
GPQA (HELM)43.7%—
LMArena Expert1233—
BoolQ85.8%—

Multimodal Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Llama 3.2 90B: 25.4 (#124)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 3.2 90B
LMArena Vision11411000
GeoBench76%52%
Video-MME70.3%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 3.2 90B
LMArena Non-English1278—
LMArena Chinese1295—
LMArena French1258—
LMArena German1262—
LMArena Japanese1252—
LMArena Korean1221—
LMArena Russian1288—
LMArena Spanish1243—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 3.2 90B
IFEval83.1%—
LMArena Instruction Following1258—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 3.2 90B
LMArena Longer Query1284—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Llama 3.2 90B
LMArena Text1287—
LMArena Creative Writing1285—
WildBench79.2%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1253—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Llama 3.2 90B?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Llama 3.2 90B share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 90B has 9.

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