Model comparison

Llama 3.2 90B vs phi-3-medium 14B

phi-3-medium 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.7 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Llama 3.2 90B Meta

27.5

Rank #331 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3.2 90B scores higher in 1 category and phi-3-medium 14B in 1 category; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where phi-3-medium 14B leads 27.3 to 11.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 39.4% for Llama 3.2 90B and 17.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.

Side by side

Llama 3.2 90B and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
Llama 3.2 90Bphi-3-medium 14B
ProviderMetaMicrosoft
Noometry Index27.529.7
Released2024-09-242024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked913

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: —, phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90Bphi-3-medium 14B
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—48.7%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: 30.0 (#80), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90Bphi-3-medium 14B
BALROG27.3%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#217), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90Bphi-3-medium 14B
Epoch Capabilities Index125.5121.23
EnigmaEval0.4%—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
HellaSwag—82.4%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math phi-3-medium 14B leads

Llama 3.2 90B: 11.1 (#308), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90Bphi-3-medium 14B
MATH Level 539.4%17.6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.6%—

Knowledge Llama 3.2 90B leads

Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#274), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90Bphi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond41%27.6%
MMLU80.3%78%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: 25.4 (#124), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90Bphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Vision1000—
GeoBench52%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 3.2 90B better than phi-3-medium 14B?

phi-3-medium 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.7 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Llama 3.2 90B and phi-3-medium 14B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.2 90B has 9 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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