Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Llama 3.2 90B

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Pro Google

45.0

Rank #75 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 90B Meta

27.5

Rank #331 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Pro 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 knowledge, where Gemini 2.5 Pro leads 56.0 to 21.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 84.7% for Gemini 2.5 Pro 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 2.5 Pro and Llama 3.2 90B specifications
Gemini 2.5 ProLlama 3.2 90B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index45.027.5
Released2025-03-252024-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked789

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.4 (#101), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProLlama 3.2 90B
SWE-bench Verified57.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)53.6%—
Aider Polyglot83.1%—
LMArena WebDev1227—
SciCode42.8%—
GSO3.9%—
WeirdML54%—
LiveBench Coding85.9%—
LMArena Coding1452—
CadEval64%—
ALE-Bench785.52—
AlgoTune1.51—

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.2 (#88), Llama 3.2 90B: 30.0 (#80)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProLlama 3.2 90B
BALROG43.3%27.3%
Terminal-Bench32.6%—
GDPval23.3%—
Remote Labor Index0.8%—
TheAgentCompany30.3%—
τ²-bench Banking13.7%—
DeepResearch Bench42.8%—
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons55.4%—
Vending-Bench 2573.64—

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 28.8 (#99), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#217)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProLlama 3.2 90B
EnigmaEval5.6%0.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index145.32125.5
ARC-AGI-24.9%—
SimpleBench62.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark70.3%—
ARC-AGI-141%—
CritPt2%—
Chess Puzzles20%—
LiveBench Reasoning89.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1455—
DTBench82.4%—
LiveBench Data Analysis79.9%—
LMCA34.8%—
ForecastBench61.3—
LiveBench82.3%—

Math Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 32.5 (#213), Llama 3.2 90B: 11.1 (#308)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProLlama 3.2 90B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584.7%2.6%
MATH Level 595.9%39.4%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)24.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
Omni-MATH41.6%—
LiveBench Math90.2%—
LMArena Math1450—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)14.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 56.0 (#46), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#274)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProLlama 3.2 90B
GPQA Diamond85.3%41%
Humanity's Last Exam21.6%—
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%—
GPQA (HELM)74.9%—
LMArena Expert1452—
MMLU—80.3%

Multimodal Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 45.2 (#18), Llama 3.2 90B: 25.4 (#124)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Vision12631000
GeoBench86%52%
VPCT48%—
LMArena Document1421—
SpatialViz-Bench44.7%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.3 (#31), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Non-English1451—
LMArena Chinese1507—
LMArena French1472—
LMArena German1487—
LMArena Japanese1461—
LMArena Korean1434—
LMArena Russian1461—
LMArena Spanish1473—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.0 (#75), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProLlama 3.2 90B
LiveBench Instruction Following80.6%—
IFEval84%—
LMArena Instruction Following1437—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.8 (#5), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProLlama 3.2 90B
Fiction.LiveBench91.7%—
LMArena Longer Query1449—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.7 (#62), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Text1458—
LMArena Creative Writing1454—
Short-Story Creative Writing83.8%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1421—
WildBench85.7%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1453—
LiveBench Language67.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro better than Llama 3.2 90B?

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Pro and Llama 3.2 90B share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 90B has 9.

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