Model comparison

Llama 2-70B vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.4 to 24.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.1

Rank #343 Confirmed

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct Microsoft

27.4

Rank #324 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-70B scores higher in 6 categories and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads 27.9 to 7.4.

Side by side

Llama 2-70B and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct specifications
Llama 2-70BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
ProviderMetaMicrosoft
Noometry Index24.127.4
Released2023-07-182024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked3535

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Category by category

Coding Llama 2-70B leads

Llama 2-70B: 30.8 (#281), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.1 (#319)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Coding10791093
LiveBench Coding—15.5%
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—54.2%

Reasoning Too close to call

Llama 2-70B: 13.7 (#324), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 13.6 (#326)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts10731072
BIG-Bench Hard64.9%71.7%
HellaSwag85.3%76.7%
WinoGrande80.2%70.8%
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—26.8%
DTBench41.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—34.7%
Adversarial NLI—52.8%
CommonsenseQA 2.050%—
Epoch Capabilities Index113.59—
ForecastBench51.4—
LAMBADA78.9%—
LiveBench—22.4%
PIQA82.8%—

Math Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads

Llama 2-70B: 7.5 (#320), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 24.5 (#258)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Math10911111
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250%—
LiveBench Math—15.7%
MATH Level 53.3%—
GSM8K69.6%—

Knowledge Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads

Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#305), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.9 (#241)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Expert10391045
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.3%84.9%
MMLU69.9%68.8%
OpenBookQA60.2%88%
TriviaQA87.6%64%
GPQA Diamond26.3%—
BoolQ88.6%—

Multilingual Llama 2-70B leads

Llama 2-70B: 27.9 (#269), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.5 (#275)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Non-English10451021
LMArena Chinese9941021
LMArena French10891075
LMArena German10411044
LMArena Japanese927935
LMArena Korean964905
LMArena Russian10831022
LMArena Spanish11421084

Instruction Following Llama 2-70B leads

Llama 2-70B: 55.1 (#273), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 48.0 (#298)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following10711053
LiveBench Instruction Following—39.1%

Long Context Too close to call

Llama 2-70B: 32.2 (#265), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#271)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query10621044

Writing & Preference Llama 2-70B leads

Llama 2-70B: 32.5 (#274), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.7 (#295)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Text11151073
LMArena Creative Writing10751037
LMArena Multi-Turn10881018
LiveBench Language—9.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-70B better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct?

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.4 to 24.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 2-70B or Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better for coding?

Llama 2-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.8 versus 26.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-70B and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-70B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.

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