Model comparison

Gemma 7B vs Llama 3.2 90B

Gemma 7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.5 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 7B Google

29.5

Rank #295 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 90B Meta

27.1

Rank #326 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 2 categories and Llama 3.2 90B in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 7B leads 28.7 to 10.4.

Side by side

Gemma 7B and Llama 3.2 90B specifications
Gemma 7BLlama 3.2 90B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index29.527.1
Released2024-02-212024-09-24
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked279

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 7B: 29.9 (#290), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Coding1048—
HumanEval+28.7%—
MBPP+43.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 7B: —, Llama 3.2 90B: 29.7 (#73)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama 3.2 90B
BALROG—27.3%

Reasoning Llama 3.2 90B leads

Gemma 7B: 19.0 (#247), Llama 3.2 90B: 20.9 (#207)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama 3.2 90B
Epoch Capabilities Index111.74125.5
EnigmaEval—0.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts1042—
Adversarial NLI48.7%—
BIG-Bench Hard55.1%—
HellaSwag82.2%—
PIQA81.2%—
WinoGrande79%—

Math Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 28.7 (#225), Llama 3.2 90B: 10.4 (#302)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama 3.2 90B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—2.6%
LMArena Math1066—
MATH Level 5—39.4%
GSM8K46.4%—

Knowledge Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 26.8 (#248), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#269)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama 3.2 90B
MMLU66.1%80.3%
GPQA Diamond—41%
LMArena Expert1002—
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.3%—
BoolQ83.2%—
OpenBookQA78.6%—
TriviaQA72.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 7B: —, Llama 3.2 90B: 24.9 (#119)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Vision—1000
GeoBench—52%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 7B: 25.3 (#282), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Non-English999—
LMArena Chinese1035—
LMArena French1024—
LMArena Russian993—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 7B: 51.7 (#290), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Instruction Following1017—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#277), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Longer Query1022—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 7B: 27.2 (#297), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Text1056—
LMArena Creative Writing1024—
LMArena Multi-Turn963—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 7B better than Llama 3.2 90B?

Gemma 7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.5 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and Llama 3.2 90B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 90B has 9.

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