Model comparison
Llama 3.2 90B vs Llama 3-70B
Llama 3-70B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.5 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3.2 90B scores higher in 3 categories and Llama 3-70B in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Llama 3.2 90B leads 29.7 to 20.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 39.4% for Llama 3.2 90B and 22.6% for Llama 3-70B.
Side by side
| Llama 3.2 90B | Llama 3-70B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 27.1 | 28.5 |
| Released | 2024-09-24 | 2024-04-18 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 9 | 31 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: —, Llama 3-70B: 35.3 (#215)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 43.6% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1206 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.5% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 72% |
| MBPP+ | — | 69% |
Agentic & Tool Use Llama 3.2 90B leads
Llama 3.2 90B: 29.7 (#73), Llama 3-70B: 20.9 (#132)
Reasoning Llama 3.2 90B leads
Llama 3.2 90B: 20.9 (#207), Llama 3-70B: 17.4 (#284)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 125.5 | 122.91 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 35.1% |
| EnigmaEval | 0.4% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1195 |
| DTBench | — | 54.2% |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.1 |
| WinoGrande | — | 83.5% |
Math Llama 3-70B leads
Llama 3.2 90B: 10.4 (#302), Llama 3-70B: 12.0 (#299)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.6% | 4.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | 39.4% | 22.6% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1218 |
Knowledge Too close to call
Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#269), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#272)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 41% | 40.6% |
| MMLU | 80.3% | 79.3% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1149 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: 24.9 (#119), Llama 3-70B: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1000 | — |
| GeoBench | 52% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: —, Llama 3-70B: 33.8 (#246)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1142 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1114 |
| LMArena French | — | 1231 |
| LMArena German | — | 1169 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1017 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1017 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1159 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1241 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: —, Llama 3-70B: 62.8 (#233)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1194 |
Long Context Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: —, Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#235)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1174 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: —, Llama 3-70B: 43.0 (#225)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1221 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1210 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1223 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 3.2 90B better than Llama 3-70B?
Llama 3-70B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.5 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Llama 3.2 90B and Llama 3-70B share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.2 90B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.