Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Llama 2-70B

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.4

Rank #349 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-70B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 64.4 to 7.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 91.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 0% for Llama 2-70B.
  • Llama 2-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Llama 2-70B specifications
Gemini 3 ProLlama 2-70B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index54.824.4
Released2025-11-182023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked6735

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 2-70B
LMArena Coding14811079
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1440—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), Llama 2-70B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 2-70B
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%—
GDPval40.3%—
Remote Labor Index1.3%—
τ²-bench Airline80.5%—
τ²-bench Banking18%—
τ²-bench Retail75.9%—
τ²-bench Telecom91%—
DeepResearch Bench46.3%—
BALROG58.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons71%—
Vending-Bench 25,478—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 2-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts14801073
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92113.79
ForecastBench61.251.4
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
CritPt6.9%—
Chess Puzzles31%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
DTBench—41.6%
BIG-Bench Hard—64.9%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—50%
HellaSwag—85.3%
LAMBADA—78.9%
PIQA—82.8%
WinoGrande—80.2%

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 2-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%0%
LMArena Math14761091
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
ProofBench20%—
Omni-MATH55.5%—
MATH Level 5—3.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%—
GSM8K—69.6%

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 2-70B
GPQA Diamond92.6%26.3%
LMArena Expert14751039
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—88.6%
MMLU—69.9%
OpenBookQA—60.2%
TriviaQA—87.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), Llama 2-70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 2-70B
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 2-70B
LMArena Non-English14741045
LMArena Chinese1523995
LMArena French14921090
LMArena German15151041
LMArena Japanese1510927
LMArena Korean1448964
LMArena Russian14931083
LMArena Spanish14701143

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 2-70B
LMArena Instruction Following14581071
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 2-70B
LMArena Longer Query14711062
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 2-70B
LMArena Text14791115
LMArena Creative Writing14821075
LMArena Multi-Turn14841088
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Llama 2-70B?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or Llama 2-70B better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Llama 2-70B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.

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