Model comparison
Gemma 3 27B vs Llama 3.2 90B
Gemma 3 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.
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MetaSummary
- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 27B scores higher in 3 categories and Llama 3.2 90B in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 3 27B leads 25.9 to 11.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 74% for Gemma 3 27B and 39.4% for Llama 3.2 90B.
Side by side
| Gemma 3 27B | Llama 3.2 90B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | 27.5 |
| Released | 2025-03-11 | 2024-09-24 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.08 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.16 | — |
| Results tracked | 43 | 9 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 22.5 (#334), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 4.9% | — |
| SciCode | 21.2% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 39.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Llama 3.2 90B leads
Gemma 3 27B: 25.1 (#110), Llama 3.2 90B: 30.0 (#80)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 29.5% | — |
| BALROG | — | 27.3% |
Reasoning Llama 3.2 90B leads
Gemma 3 27B: 16.7 (#301), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#217)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 130.04 | 125.5 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 40.4% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.4% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 43.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1340 | — |
| DTBench | 52.5% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 51.5% | — |
| LMCA | 12.3% | — |
| LiveBench | 50% | — |
Math Gemma 3 27B leads
Gemma 3 27B: 25.9 (#265), Llama 3.2 90B: 11.1 (#308)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 22.5% | 2.6% |
| MATH Level 5 | 74% | 39.4% |
| LiveBench Math | 55.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1312 | — |
Knowledge Gemma 3 27B leads
Gemma 3 27B: 25.5 (#261), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#274)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.7% | 41% |
| Confabulations | 40.3% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.4% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1304 | — |
| MMLU | — | 80.3% |
Multimodal Gemma 3 27B leads
Gemma 3 27B: 32.6 (#100), Llama 3.2 90B: 25.4 (#124)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1164 | 1000 |
| GeoBench | 52% | 52% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 46.9 (#155), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1334 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1346 | — |
| LMArena French | 1368 | — |
| LMArena German | 1362 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1287 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1308 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1349 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1349 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 70.6 (#160), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 74.9% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1321 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#293), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 33.3% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1333 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 52.5 (#168), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1358 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1346 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 79.9% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1266 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1345 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 34.6% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 3 27B better than Llama 3.2 90B?
Gemma 3 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 27B and Llama 3.2 90B share?
6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 27B has 43 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 90B has 9.