Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs Llama 3-70B

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.1 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 29 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) Google

32.1

Rank #261 Confirmed

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 3-70B in 3 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads 25.8 to 12.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 70.4% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and 22.6% for Llama 3-70B.
  • Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Llama 3-70B specifications
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3-70B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index32.128.8
Released2024-02-152024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4531

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Category by category

Coding Llama 3-70B leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 34.2 (#241), Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3-70B
BigCodeBench Instruct43.8%43.6%
LMArena Coding12941206
BigCodeBench Complete57.5%54.5%
HumanEval+79.3%72%
MBPP+74.6%69%
WeirdML22.2%—
CadEval34%—

Agentic & Tool Use Llama 3-70B leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145), Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3-70B
Cybench7.5%5%
TheAgentCompany3.4%—
BALROG21%—

Reasoning Llama 3-70B leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338), Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts12961195
DTBench59%54.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index131.73122.93
ForecastBench58.457.1
ARC-AGI-20.8%—
SimpleBench27.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—35.1%
BIG-Bench Hard89.2%—
WinoGrande—83.5%

Math Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266), Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202523.1%4.3%
LMArena Math13151218
MATH Level 570.4%22.6%
Omni-MATH36.4%—

Knowledge Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3-70B
GPQA Diamond57.2%40.6%
LMArena Expert12791149
MMLU86.9%79.3%
Humanity's Last Exam4.6%—
MMLU-Pro73.7%—
Confabulations13.5%—
GPQA (HELM)53.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77), Llama 3-70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3-70B
LMArena Vision1161—
Video-MME75%—

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174), Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English13121142
LMArena Chinese13311114
LMArena French13021232
LMArena German12861169
LMArena Japanese12921017
LMArena Korean12981017
LMArena Russian13201159
LMArena Spanish13111241

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185), Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following12971194
IFEval83.7%—

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query13081174

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172), Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3-70B
LMArena Text13191221
LMArena Creative Writing13331210
LMArena Multi-Turn12961223
WildBench81.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better than Llama 3-70B?

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.1 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) or Llama 3-70B better for coding?

Llama 3-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Llama 3-70B share?

29 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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