Model comparison
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct vs Mixtral 8x7B
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct scores higher in 8 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads 34.1 to 11.0.
Side by side
| Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | Mixtral 8x7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | NVIDIA | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 37.6 | 27.1 |
| Released | 2024-12-18 | 2023-12-11 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 32K |
| Max output | — | 32K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 14 | 38 |
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Category by category
Coding Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 35.9 (#216), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1272 | 1126 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 38.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 48.2% | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 39.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 49.7% |
Reasoning Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 25.0 (#152), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1266 | 1115 |
| DTBench | — | 49.6% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.47 |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
| HellaSwag | — | 86.7% |
| PIQA | — | 83.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 77.2% |
Math Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 35.5 (#182), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1271 | 1147 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 10.5% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 10% |
| GSM8K | — | 74.4% |
Knowledge Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 34.1 (#199), Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1242 | 1088 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 30.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 33.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 29.6% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 87.3% |
| MMLU | — | 70.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 85.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 82.2% |
Multilingual Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 40.5 (#217), Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1245 | 1077 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1263 | 1055 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 1090 |
| LMArena French | — | 1166 |
| LMArena German | — | 1114 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 931 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 968 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1111 |
Instruction Following Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 65.9 (#213), Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1252 | 1109 |
| IFEval | — | 57.5% |
Long Context Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#215), Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1238 | 1103 |
Writing & Preference Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 48.4 (#203), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1283 | 1132 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1269 | 1109 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1115 |
| WildBench | — | 67.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct better than Mixtral 8x7B?
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 versus 32.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct and Mixtral 8x7B share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.