Model comparison

Llama 3.2 11B vs Llama 3-8B

Llama 3-8B has enough public results to be ranked (#344); Llama 3.2 11B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Llama 3.2 11B Meta

32.1

Unranked Sparse

Llama 3-8B Meta

25.5

Rank #344 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.

Side by side

Llama 3.2 11B and Llama 3-8B specifications
Llama 3.2 11BLlama 3-8B
ProviderMetaMeta
Noometry Index32.125.5
Released2024-09-242024-04-18
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked334

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Llama 3.2 11B: —, Llama 3-8B: 31.0 (#289)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 11BLlama 3-8B
BigCodeBench Instruct—31.9%
LMArena Coding—1152
BigCodeBench Complete—36.9%
HumanEval+—56.7%
MBPP+—54.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 3.2 11B: 27.3, Llama 3-8B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 11BLlama 3-8B
BALROG16.8%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Llama 3.2 11B: —, Llama 3-8B: 14.3 (#326)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 11BLlama 3-8B
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1133
DTBench—43.9%
Adversarial NLI—57.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—116.45
ForecastBench—58.6
WinoGrande—75.7%

Math Not comparable

Llama 3.2 11B: —, Llama 3-8B: 8.8 (#323)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 11BLlama 3-8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—1.9%
LMArena Math—1151
MATH Level 5—6.1%

Knowledge Not comparable

Llama 3.2 11B: —, Llama 3-8B: 7.8 (#308)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 11BLlama 3-8B
MMLU56.5%68.8%
GPQA Diamond—26.1%
LMArena Expert—1113
ARC (AI2) Challenge—82.8%
OpenBookQA—82.6%
TriviaQA—67.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 3.2 11B: 24.4, Llama 3-8B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 11BLlama 3-8B
LMArena Vision966—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 3.2 11B: —, Llama 3-8B: 30.8 (#261)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 11BLlama 3-8B
LMArena Non-English—1098
LMArena Chinese—1076
LMArena French—1159
LMArena German—1104
LMArena Japanese—967
LMArena Korean—1004
LMArena Russian—1109
LMArena Spanish—1173

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama 3.2 11B: —, Llama 3-8B: 58.4 (#260)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 11BLlama 3-8B
LMArena Instruction Following—1127

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 3.2 11B: —, Llama 3-8B: 34.2 (#251)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 11BLlama 3-8B
LMArena Longer Query—1128

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama 3.2 11B: —, Llama 3-8B: 37.5 (#256)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 11BLlama 3-8B
LMArena Text—1166
LMArena Creative Writing—1150
LMArena Multi-Turn—1152

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 3.2 11B better than Llama 3-8B?

Llama 3-8B has enough public results to be ranked (#344); Llama 3.2 11B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Llama 3.2 11B and Llama 3-8B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Llama 3.2 11B has 3 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-8B has 34.

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