Model comparison
Gemma 3 27B vs Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat
Gemma 3 27B and Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.5 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 27B scores higher in 3 categories and Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemma 3 27B leads 52.7 to 31.8.
Side by side
| Gemma 3 27B | Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | NVIDIA | |
| Noometry Index | 30.5 | 31.2 |
| Released | 2025-03-11 | — |
| 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 Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat leads
Gemma 3 27B: 22.1 (#329), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 29.3 (#295)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | 1025 |
| Aider Polyglot | 4.9% | — |
| SciCode | 21.2% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 39.9% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 24.9 (#105), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat leads
Gemma 3 27B: 16.3 (#297), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 19.1 (#245)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1340 | 1047 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 40.4% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 43.8% | — |
| DTBench | 52.5% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 51.5% | — |
| LMCA | 12.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 130.04 | — |
| LiveBench | 50% | — |
Math Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat leads
Gemma 3 27B: 24.4 (#261), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 28.8 (#223)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1312 | 1072 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 22.5% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 55.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 74% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 25.4 (#256), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 40.3% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.4% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1303 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 32.0 (#94), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1165 | — |
| GeoBench | 52% | — |
Multilingual Gemma 3 27B leads
Gemma 3 27B: 47.0 (#150), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 28.9 (#265)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1334 | 1064 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1347 | — |
| LMArena French | 1368 | — |
| LMArena German | 1362 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1287 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1308 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1349 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1348 | — |
Instruction Following Gemma 3 27B leads
Gemma 3 27B: 70.8 (#155), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 54.5 (#274)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1321 | 1061 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 74.9% | — |
Long Context Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat leads
Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#288), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 30.4 (#283)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1333 | 998 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 33.3% | — |
Writing & Preference Gemma 3 27B leads
Gemma 3 27B: 52.7 (#161), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 31.8 (#278)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1358 | 1098 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1346 | 1091 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1344 | 1058 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 79.9% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1266 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 34.6% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 3 27B better than Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat?
Gemma 3 27B and Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.5 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Gemma 3 27B or Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat better for coding?
Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.3 versus 22.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 27B and Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat share?
9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 27B has 43 scored results on Noometry and Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat has 9.