Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Llama 3.2 90B

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.8 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) Google

34.8

Rank #223 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 90B Meta

27.1

Rank #326 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 3 categories and Llama 3.2 90B in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 36.1 to 10.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 57.8% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 2.6% for Llama 3.2 90B.
  • Llama 3.2 90B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Llama 3.2 90B specifications
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.2 90B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index34.827.1
Released2024-12-062024-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked549

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.2 (#308), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.2 90B
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)13.5%—
Aider Polyglot38.2%—
WeirdML25.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.9%—
LiveBench Coding63.4%—
LMArena Coding1351—
BigCodeBench Complete59.9%—
CadEval30%—

Agentic & Tool Use Llama 3.2 90B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.0 (#85), Llama 3.2 90B: 29.7 (#73)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.2 90B
TheAgentCompany11.4%—
BALROG—27.3%

Reasoning Llama 3.2 90B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#308), Llama 3.2 90B: 20.9 (#207)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.2 90B
EnigmaEval1.1%0.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index135.36125.5
ARC-AGI-21.3%—
SimpleBench31.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning78.2%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1346—
DTBench63.2%—
LiveBench Data Analysis69.4%—
LiveBench66.9%—

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.1 (#127), Llama 3.2 90B: 10.4 (#302)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.2 90B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%2.6%
MATH Level 582.2%39.4%
Omni-MATH45.9%—
LiveBench Math75.8%—
LMArena Math1351—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#207), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#269)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.2 90B
GPQA Diamond64.1%41%
MMLU79.7%80.3%
Humanity's Last Exam6.6%—
MMLU-Pro73.7%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)55.6%—
LMArena Expert1340—

Multimodal Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 35.9 (#74), Llama 3.2 90B: 24.9 (#119)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.2 90B
LMArena Vision11581000
GeoBench77%52%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.6 (#144), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.2 90B
LMArena Non-English1342—
LMArena Chinese1373—
LMArena French1390—
LMArena German1354—
LMArena Japanese1293—
LMArena Korean1314—
LMArena Russian1351—
LMArena Spanish1363—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.6 (#91), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.2 90B
LiveBench Instruction Following85.8%—
IFEval84.1%—
LMArena Instruction Following1336—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#198), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.2 90B
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—
LMArena Longer Query1345—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.8 (#184), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3.2 90B
LMArena Text1354—
LMArena Creative Writing1340—
Short-Story Creative Writing73.8%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1128—
WildBench80%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1350—
LiveBench Language51.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Llama 3.2 90B?

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.8 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Llama 3.2 90B share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 90B has 9.

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