Model comparison

Llama 3-70B vs Yi-1.5-34B

Yi-1.5-34B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.2 to 28.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.5

Rank #317 Confirmed

Yi-1.5-34B 01.AI

30.2

Rank #286 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3-70B scores higher in 6 categories and Yi-1.5-34B in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Yi-1.5-34B leads 25.3 to 12.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 54.5% for Llama 3-70B and 43.8% for Yi-1.5-34B.

Side by side

Llama 3-70B and Yi-1.5-34B specifications
Llama 3-70BYi-1.5-34B
ProviderMeta01.AI
Noometry Index28.530.2
Released2024-04-182024-05-13
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3121

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Category by category

Coding Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3-70B: 35.3 (#215), Yi-1.5-34B: 31.9 (#267)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BYi-1.5-34B
BigCodeBench Instruct43.6%33.9%
LMArena Coding12061169
BigCodeBench Complete54.5%43.8%
HumanEval+72%—
MBPP+69%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 3-70B: 20.9 (#132), Yi-1.5-34B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BYi-1.5-34B
Cybench5%—

Reasoning Yi-1.5-34B leads

Llama 3-70B: 17.4 (#284), Yi-1.5-34B: 21.5 (#195)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Hard Prompts11951160
Kagi LLM Benchmark35.1%—
DTBench54.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index122.91—
ForecastBench57.1—
WinoGrande83.5%—

Math Yi-1.5-34B leads

Llama 3-70B: 12.0 (#299), Yi-1.5-34B: 25.3 (#248)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Math12181182
MATH Level 522.6%25.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.3%—

Knowledge Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#272), Yi-1.5-34B: 14.8 (#290)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BYi-1.5-34B
GPQA Diamond40.6%32%
LMArena Expert11491144
MMLU79.3%—

Multilingual Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3-70B: 33.8 (#246), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.5 (#251)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Non-English11421121
LMArena Chinese11141213
LMArena French12311155
LMArena German11691111
LMArena Japanese10171021
LMArena Korean10171005
LMArena Russian11591091
LMArena Spanish12411120

Instruction Following Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3-70B: 62.8 (#233), Yi-1.5-34B: 59.4 (#252)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Instruction Following11941139

Long Context Too close to call

Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#235), Yi-1.5-34B: 34.6 (#243)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Longer Query11741144

Writing & Preference Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3-70B: 43.0 (#225), Yi-1.5-34B: 37.6 (#252)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Text12211173
LMArena Creative Writing12101135
LMArena Multi-Turn12231153

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 3-70B better than Yi-1.5-34B?

Yi-1.5-34B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.2 to 28.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 3-70B or Yi-1.5-34B better for coding?

Llama 3-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.3 versus 31.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 3-70B and Yi-1.5-34B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3-70B has 31 scored results on Noometry and Yi-1.5-34B has 21.

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