Model comparison

Llama 3.2 90B vs Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.0 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.

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Llama 3.2 90B Meta

27.5

Rank #331 Confirmed

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct Microsoft

33.0

Rank #250 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in math, where Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads 33.4 to 11.1.

Side by side

Llama 3.2 90B and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct specifications
Llama 3.2 90BPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
ProviderMetaMicrosoft
Noometry Index27.533.0
Released2024-09-24—
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked917

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: —, Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 32.9 (#268)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90BPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Coding—1130

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: 30.0 (#80), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90BPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
BALROG27.3%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#217), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 21.7 (#214)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90BPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
EnigmaEval0.4%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1127
Epoch Capabilities Index125.5—

Math Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads

Llama 3.2 90B: 11.1 (#308), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 33.4 (#202)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90BPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.6%—
LMArena Math—1173
MATH Level 539.4%—

Knowledge Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads

Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#274), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.2 (#229)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90BPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
GPQA Diamond41%—
LMArena Expert—1108
MMLU80.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: 25.4 (#124), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90BPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Vision1000—
GeoBench52%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: —, Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.6 (#263)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90BPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Non-English—1094
LMArena Chinese—1108
LMArena French—1110
LMArena German—1101
LMArena Japanese—1042
LMArena Korean—954
LMArena Russian—1145
LMArena Spanish—1095

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: —, Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 57.6 (#268)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90BPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following—1113

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: —, Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.0 (#255)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90BPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query—1120

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: —, Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.1 (#272)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90BPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Text—1138
LMArena Creative Writing—1107
LMArena Multi-Turn—1088

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 3.2 90B better than Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct?

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.0 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Llama 3.2 90B and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.2 90B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has 17.

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