Model comparison

Llama 3.2 90B vs Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct

Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.7 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.

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Llama 3.2 90B Meta

27.5

Rank #331 Confirmed

Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct Microsoft

29.7

Rank #305 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in math, where Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct leads 31.6 to 11.1.

Side by side

Llama 3.2 90B and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct specifications
Llama 3.2 90BPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
ProviderMetaMicrosoft
Noometry Index27.529.7
Released2024-09-242024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked919

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: —, Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 28.8 (#312)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90BPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct—29.6%
LMArena Coding—1039
BigCodeBench Complete—40.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: 30.0 (#80), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90BPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
BALROG27.3%—

Reasoning Llama 3.2 90B leads

Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#217), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 19.6 (#256)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90BPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
EnigmaEval0.4%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1028
Epoch Capabilities Index125.5—

Math Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct leads

Llama 3.2 90B: 11.1 (#308), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 31.6 (#222)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90BPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.6%—
LMArena Math—1089
MATH Level 539.4%—

Knowledge Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct leads

Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#274), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 26.8 (#254)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90BPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
GPQA Diamond41%—
LMArena Expert—984
MMLU80.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: 25.4 (#124), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90BPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Vision1000—
GeoBench52%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: —, Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 25.2 (#285)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90BPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Non-English—1000
LMArena Chinese—1016
LMArena French—1039
LMArena German—1006
LMArena Japanese—899
LMArena Korean—856
LMArena Russian—1004
LMArena Spanish—1059

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: —, Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 51.8 (#294)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90BPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following—1023

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: —, Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 30.4 (#289)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90BPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query—996

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: —, Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 27.1 (#301)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90BPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Text—1050
LMArena Creative Writing—1024
LMArena Multi-Turn—989

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 3.2 90B better than Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct?

Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct 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 Mini 128k Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.2 90B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct has 19.

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