Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Llama 3.2 90B

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #30 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 90B Meta

27.1

Rank #326 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher in 5 categories and Llama 3.2 90B in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 57.0 to 10.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 94.2% for Gemini 3.6 Flash 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 3.6 FlashLlama 3.2 90B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index54.127.1
Released2026-07-212024-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.75—
Output $ / M tokens$3.75—
Results tracked469

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 49.6 (#45), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3.2 90B
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
LMArena WebDev1536—
SciCode52.7%—
WeirdML56.1%—
LMArena Coding1492—
ALE-Bench715.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.4 (#56), Llama 3.2 90B: 29.7 (#73)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3.2 90B
APEX-Agents46.9%—
BALROG—27.3%
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.9 (#20), Llama 3.2 90B: 20.9 (#207)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3.2 90B
Epoch Capabilities Index154.36125.5
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
CritPt10.6%—
Chess Puzzles43%—
EnigmaEval—0.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts1486—
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—
DTBench95.5%—
LMCA44.9%—

Math Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.0 (#33), Llama 3.2 90B: 10.4 (#302)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3.2 90B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%2.6%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
ProofBench36%—
LMArena Math1504—
MATH Level 5—39.4%

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#7), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#269)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3.2 90B
GPQA Diamond94.1%41%
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
LMArena Expert1489—
MMLU—80.3%

Multimodal Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.7 (#55), Llama 3.2 90B: 24.9 (#119)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Vision12971000
GeoBench—52%
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.8 (#17), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Non-English1470—
LMArena Chinese1530—
LMArena French1501—
LMArena German1478—
LMArena Japanese1477—
LMArena Korean1435—
LMArena Russian1490—
LMArena Spanish1477—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.2 (#27), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Instruction Following1467—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#47), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Longer Query1475—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.3 (#26), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Text1478—
LMArena Creative Writing1464—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—
LMArena Multi-Turn1481—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Llama 3.2 90B?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and Llama 3.2 90B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 90B has 9.

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