Model comparison
Llama 2-34B vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has enough public results to be ranked (#156); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
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NVIDIASummary
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Llama 2-34B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | — | 39.3 |
| Released | 2023-07-18 | 2026-08-11 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.06 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.16 |
| Results tracked | 10 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Llama 2-34B: —, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 39.6 (#143)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1370 |
Reasoning Not comparable
Llama 2-34B: —, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 25.7 (#128)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1335 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 44.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 104.81 | — |
| PIQA | 81.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 76.7% | — |
Math Not comparable
Llama 2-34B: —, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 34.7 (#156)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1355 |
| GSM8K | 42.2% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Llama 2-34B: —, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 36.9 (#154)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1354 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 54.5% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.7% | — |
| MMLU | 62.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 58.2% | — |
| TriviaQA | 84.6% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Llama 2-34B: —, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 44.0 (#175)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1292 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1356 |
| LMArena French | — | 1369 |
| LMArena German | — | 1280 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1213 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1233 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1257 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1321 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Llama 2-34B: —, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 69.8 (#166)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1317 |
Long Context Not comparable
Llama 2-34B: —, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 39.9 (#160)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1312 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Llama 2-34B: —, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 48.5 (#198)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1324 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1254 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1280 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1327 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 2-34B better than Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has enough public results to be ranked (#156); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Llama 2-34B and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-34B has 10 scored results on Noometry and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has 18.