Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs Llama 3-8B

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.1 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) Google

32.1

Rank #261 Confirmed

Llama 3-8B Meta

25.5

Rank #344 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher in 7 categories and Llama 3-8B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads 29.4 to 7.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 70.4% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and 6.1% for Llama 3-8B.
  • Llama 3-8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Llama 3-8B specifications
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3-8B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index32.125.5
Released2024-02-152024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
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Results tracked4534

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 34.2 (#241), Llama 3-8B: 31.0 (#289)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3-8B
BigCodeBench Instruct43.8%31.9%
LMArena Coding12941152
BigCodeBench Complete57.5%36.9%
HumanEval+79.3%56.7%
MBPP+74.6%54.8%
WeirdML22.2%—
CadEval34%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145), Llama 3-8B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3-8B
TheAgentCompany3.4%—
Cybench7.5%—
BALROG21%—

Reasoning Llama 3-8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338), Llama 3-8B: 14.3 (#326)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3-8B
LMArena Hard Prompts12961133
DTBench59%43.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index131.73116.45
ForecastBench58.458.6
ARC-AGI-20.8%—
SimpleBench27.1%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
Adversarial NLI—57.3%
BIG-Bench Hard89.2%—
WinoGrande—75.7%

Math Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266), Llama 3-8B: 8.8 (#323)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3-8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202523.1%1.9%
LMArena Math13151151
MATH Level 570.4%6.1%
Omni-MATH36.4%—

Knowledge Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239), Llama 3-8B: 7.8 (#308)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3-8B
GPQA Diamond57.2%26.1%
LMArena Expert12791113
MMLU86.9%68.8%
Humanity's Last Exam4.6%—
MMLU-Pro73.7%—
Confabulations13.5%—
GPQA (HELM)53.4%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—82.8%
OpenBookQA—82.6%
TriviaQA—67.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77), Llama 3-8B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3-8B
LMArena Vision1161—
Video-MME75%—

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174), Llama 3-8B: 30.8 (#261)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3-8B
LMArena Non-English13121098
LMArena Chinese13311076
LMArena French13021159
LMArena German12861104
LMArena Japanese1292967
LMArena Korean12981004
LMArena Russian13201109
LMArena Spanish13111173

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185), Llama 3-8B: 58.4 (#260)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3-8B
LMArena Instruction Following12971127
IFEval83.7%—

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169), Llama 3-8B: 34.2 (#251)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3-8B
LMArena Longer Query13081128

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172), Llama 3-8B: 37.5 (#256)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Llama 3-8B
LMArena Text13191166
LMArena Creative Writing13331150
LMArena Multi-Turn12961152
WildBench81.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better than Llama 3-8B?

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.1 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) or Llama 3-8B better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.2 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Llama 3-8B share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-8B has 34.

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