Model comparison
Llama 2-70B vs Llama 3.2 3B
Llama 3.2 3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.9 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-70B scores higher in 3 categories and Llama 3.2 3B in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Llama 3.2 3B leads 32.4 to 8.1.
Side by side
| Llama 2-70B | Llama 3.2 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 24.4 | 28.9 |
| Released | 2023-07-18 | 2024-09-24 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 118K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.05 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.33 |
| Results tracked | 35 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding Llama 2-70B leads
Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286), Llama 3.2 3B: 27.6 (#319)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1079 | 1098 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 23.4% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 28.3% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Llama 2-70B: —, Llama 3.2 3B: 20.1 (#143)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 21.9% |
| BALROG | — | 10.1% |
Reasoning Llama 3.2 3B leads
Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325), Llama 3.2 3B: 21.0 (#228)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1073 | 1095 |
| DTBench | 41.6% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 64.9% | — |
| CommonsenseQA 2.0 | 50% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 113.79 | — |
| ForecastBench | 51.4 | — |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | — |
| LAMBADA | 78.9% | — |
| PIQA | 82.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | 80.2% | — |
Math Llama 3.2 3B leads
Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326), Llama 3.2 3B: 32.4 (#214)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1091 | 1126 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 3.3% | — |
| GSM8K | 69.6% | — |
Knowledge Llama 3.2 3B leads
Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310), Llama 3.2 3B: 29.7 (#235)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1039 | 1090 |
| GPQA Diamond | 26.3% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 88.6% | — |
| MMLU | 69.9% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 60.2% | — |
| TriviaQA | 87.6% | — |
Multilingual Llama 2-70B leads
Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274), Llama 3.2 3B: 26.2 (#281)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1045 | 1019 |
| LMArena Chinese | 995 | 1017 |
| LMArena German | 1041 | 1056 |
| LMArena Russian | 1083 | 949 |
| LMArena French | 1090 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 927 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 964 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1143 | — |
Instruction Following Llama 3.2 3B leads
Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278), Llama 3.2 3B: 56.0 (#275)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1071 | 1089 |
Long Context Llama 3.2 3B leads
Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270), Llama 3.2 3B: 33.4 (#261)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1062 | 1100 |
Writing & Preference Llama 2-70B leads
Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279), Llama 3.2 3B: 24.7 (#307)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1115 | 1110 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1075 | 1094 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1088 | 1105 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 595 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 2-70B better than Llama 3.2 3B?
Llama 3.2 3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.9 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Llama 2-70B or Llama 3.2 3B better for coding?
Llama 2-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.4 versus 27.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Llama 2-70B and Llama 3.2 3B share?
13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-70B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 3B has 18.