Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Llama 3-70B

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) Google

35.1

Rank #228 Confirmed

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 7 categories and Llama 3-70B in 2 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 37.9 to 12.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 82.2% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 22.6% for Llama 3-70B.
  • Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Llama 3-70B specifications
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3-70B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index35.128.8
Released2024-12-062024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked5431

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Category by category

Coding Llama 3-70B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315), Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3-70B
BigCodeBench Instruct45.9%43.6%
LMArena Coding13501206
BigCodeBench Complete59.9%54.5%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)13.5%—
Aider Polyglot38.2%—
WeirdML25.8%—
LiveBench Coding63.4%—
CadEval30%—
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92), Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3-70B
TheAgentCompany11.4%—
Cybench—5%

Reasoning Llama 3-70B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318), Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3-70B
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.8%35.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts13461195
DTBench63.2%54.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index135.36122.93
ARC-AGI-21.3%—
SimpleBench31.1%—
EnigmaEval1.1%—
LiveBench Reasoning78.2%—
LiveBench Data Analysis69.4%—
ForecastBench—57.1
LiveBench66.9%—
WinoGrande—83.5%

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146), Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%4.3%
LMArena Math13521218
MATH Level 582.2%22.6%
Omni-MATH45.9%—
LiveBench Math75.8%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3-70B
GPQA Diamond64.1%40.6%
LMArena Expert13391149
MMLU79.7%79.3%
Humanity's Last Exam6.6%—
MMLU-Pro73.7%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)55.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79), Llama 3-70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3-70B
LMArena Vision1158—
GeoBench77%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149), Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English13421142
LMArena Chinese13731114
LMArena French13911232
LMArena German13531169
LMArena Japanese12941017
LMArena Korean13131017
LMArena Russian13511159
LMArena Spanish13631241

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97), Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following13361194
LiveBench Instruction Following85.8%—
IFEval84.1%—

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query13441174
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190), Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Llama 3-70B
LMArena Text13541221
LMArena Creative Writing13401210
LMArena Multi-Turn13501223
Short-Story Creative Writing73.8%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1128—
WildBench80%—
LiveBench Language51.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Llama 3-70B?

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or Llama 3-70B better for coding?

Llama 3-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Llama 3-70B share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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