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Model comparison

Gemma 3 1B vs Llama 3-70B

Llama 3-70B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.8 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 1B Google

21.1

Rank #353 Reported

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 1B scores higher in 1 category and Llama 3-70B in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama 3-70B leads 20.8 to 7.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 19.9% for Gemma 3 1B and 40.6% for Llama 3-70B.

Side by side

Gemma 3 1BLlama 3-70B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index21.128.8
Released2025-03-122024-04-18
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked431

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BLlama 3-70B
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.6%
LMArena Coding—1206
BigCodeBench Complete—54.5%
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use Llama 3-70B leads

Gemma 3 1B: 13.7 (#152), Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BLlama 3-70B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard7.2%—
Cybench—5%

Reasoning Gemma 3 1B leads

Gemma 3 1B: 19.2 (#264), Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BLlama 3-70B
Kagi LLM Benchmark—35.1%
Chess Puzzles0%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1195
DTBench—54.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—122.93
ForecastBench—57.1
WinoGrande—83.5%

Math Llama 3-70B leads

Gemma 3 1B: 10.2 (#316), Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BLlama 3-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.1%4.3%
LMArena Math—1218
MATH Level 5—22.6%

Knowledge Llama 3-70B leads

Gemma 3 1B: 7.0 (#314), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BLlama 3-70B
GPQA Diamond19.9%40.6%
LMArena Expert—1149
MMLU—79.3%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BLlama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English—1142
LMArena Chinese—1114
LMArena French—1232
LMArena German—1169
LMArena Japanese—1017
LMArena Korean—1017
LMArena Russian—1159
LMArena Spanish—1241

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BLlama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following—1194

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BLlama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query—1174

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BLlama 3-70B
LMArena Text—1221
LMArena Creative Writing—1210
LMArena Multi-Turn—1223

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 1B better than Llama 3-70B?

Llama 3-70B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.8 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 1B and Llama 3-70B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 1B has 4 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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