Model comparison

Gemma 7B vs Llama 3.2 3B

Gemma 7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 7B Google

30.0

Rank #299 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 3B Meta

28.9

Rank #321 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 2 categories and Llama 3.2 3B in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where Llama 3.2 3B leads 56.0 to 51.5.

Side by side

Gemma 7B and Llama 3.2 3B specifications
Gemma 7BLlama 3.2 3B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index30.028.9
Released2024-02-212024-09-24
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—118K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.05
Output $ / M tokens—$0.33
Results tracked2718

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294), Llama 3.2 3B: 27.6 (#319)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Coding10481098
BigCodeBench Instruct—23.4%
BigCodeBench Complete—28.3%
HumanEval+28.7%—
MBPP+43.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 7B: —, Llama 3.2 3B: 20.1 (#143)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama 3.2 3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—21.9%
BALROG—10.1%

Reasoning Llama 3.2 3B leads

Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249), Llama 3.2 3B: 21.0 (#228)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Hard Prompts10421095
Adversarial NLI48.7%—
BIG-Bench Hard55.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index111.99—
HellaSwag82.2%—
PIQA81.2%—
WinoGrande79%—

Math Llama 3.2 3B leads

Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228), Llama 3.2 3B: 32.4 (#214)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Math10661126
GSM8K46.4%—

Knowledge Llama 3.2 3B leads

Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252), Llama 3.2 3B: 29.7 (#235)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Expert10011090
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.3%—
BoolQ83.2%—
MMLU66.1%—
OpenBookQA78.6%—
TriviaQA72.3%—

Multilingual Llama 3.2 3B leads

Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287), Llama 3.2 3B: 26.2 (#281)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Non-English9991019
LMArena Chinese10351017
LMArena Russian993949
LMArena French1025—
LMArena German—1056

Instruction Following Llama 3.2 3B leads

Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295), Llama 3.2 3B: 56.0 (#275)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Instruction Following10171089

Long Context Llama 3.2 3B leads

Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282), Llama 3.2 3B: 33.4 (#261)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Longer Query10221100

Writing & Preference Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302), Llama 3.2 3B: 24.7 (#307)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Text10561110
LMArena Creative Writing10241094
LMArena Multi-Turn9631105
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—595

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 7B better than Llama 3.2 3B?

Gemma 7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 7B or Llama 3.2 3B better for coding?

Gemma 7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.5 versus 27.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and Llama 3.2 3B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 3B has 18.

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