Model comparison
Llama 3-8B vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.0 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3-8B scores higher in 0 categories and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads 37.5 to 7.8.
Side by side
| Llama 3-8B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 25.5 | 40.0 |
| Released | 2024-04-18 | 2026-08-11 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.05 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.20 |
| Results tracked | 34 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Llama 3-8B: 31.0 (#289), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 40.4 (#141)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-8B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1152 | 1375 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 31.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 36.9% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 56.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 54.8% | — |
Reasoning Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Llama 3-8B: 14.3 (#326), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 26.8 (#127)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-8B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1133 | 1337 |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| DTBench | 43.9% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | 57.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 116.45 | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.6 | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.7% | — |
Math Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Llama 3-8B: 8.8 (#323), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 37.5 (#155)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-8B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1151 | 1359 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.9% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 6.1% | — |
Knowledge Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Llama 3-8B: 7.8 (#308), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 37.5 (#154)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-8B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1113 | 1356 |
| GPQA Diamond | 26.1% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 82.8% | — |
| MMLU | 68.8% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 82.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 67.7% | — |
Multilingual Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Llama 3-8B: 30.8 (#261), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 44.0 (#180)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-8B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1098 | 1295 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1076 | 1359 |
| LMArena French | 1159 | 1366 |
| LMArena German | 1104 | 1282 |
| LMArena Japanese | 967 | 1206 |
| LMArena Korean | 1004 | 1238 |
| LMArena Russian | 1109 | 1253 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1173 | 1345 |
Instruction Following Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Llama 3-8B: 58.4 (#260), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 69.6 (#170)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-8B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1127 | 1318 |
Long Context Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Llama 3-8B: 34.2 (#251), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 39.9 (#165)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-8B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1128 | 1314 |
Writing & Preference Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Llama 3-8B: 37.5 (#256), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 48.5 (#201)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-8B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1166 | 1327 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1150 | 1254 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1152 | 1328 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1280 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 3-8B better than Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.0 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Llama 3-8B or Nemotron 3.5 Lightning better for coding?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Llama 3-8B and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3-8B has 34 scored results on Noometry and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has 18.