Model comparison

Llama 2-7B vs Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-7B Meta

29.1

Rank #317 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-7B scores higher in 0 categories and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads 48.4 to 28.0.

Side by side

Llama 2-7B and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct specifications
Llama 2-7BLlama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct
ProviderMetaNVIDIA
Noometry Index29.137.6
Released2023-07-182024-12-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked2914

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Category by category

Coding Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads

Llama 2-7B: 29.2 (#307), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 35.9 (#216)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BLlama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct
LMArena Coding10021272
BigCodeBench Instruct—38.7%
BigCodeBench Complete—48.2%

Reasoning Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads

Llama 2-7B: 15.7 (#312), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 25.0 (#152)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BLlama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts10091266
Chess Puzzles0%—
BIG-Bench Hard39.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index99.06—
HellaSwag77.2%—
LAMBADA73.3%—
PIQA78.8%—
WinoGrande69.2%—

Math Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads

Llama 2-7B: 30.7 (#233), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 35.5 (#182)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BLlama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct
LMArena Math10421271
GSM8K16.7%—

Knowledge Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads

Llama 2-7B: 28.2 (#248), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 34.1 (#199)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BLlama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct
LMArena Expert10361242
ARC (AI2) Challenge45.9%—
BoolQ77.9%—
MMLU45.8%—
OpenBookQA58.6%—
TriviaQA73.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 2-7B: —, Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BLlama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct
ScienceQA43.1%—

Multilingual Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads

Llama 2-7B: 23.8 (#293), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 40.5 (#217)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BLlama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct
LMArena Non-English9731245
LMArena Chinese9731263
LMArena Russian9951227
LMArena French970—
LMArena German978—
LMArena Spanish1007—

Instruction Following Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads

Llama 2-7B: 50.8 (#298), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 65.9 (#213)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BLlama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following10061252

Long Context Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads

Llama 2-7B: 30.4 (#287), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#215)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BLlama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query9991238

Writing & Preference Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads

Llama 2-7B: 28.0 (#298), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 48.4 (#203)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BLlama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct
LMArena Text10531283
LMArena Creative Writing10331269
LMArena Multi-Turn10291275

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-7B better than Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct?

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 2-7B or Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct better for coding?

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 versus 29.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-7B and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-7B has 29 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct has 14.

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