Model comparison

Llama 3-8B vs Wizardlm 70b

Wizardlm 70b is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.0 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Llama 3-8B Meta

25.5

Rank #344 Confirmed

Wizardlm 70b Microsoft

33.0

Rank #249 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3-8B scores higher in 4 categories and Wizardlm 70b in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Wizardlm 70b leads 32.2 to 8.8.

Side by side

Llama 3-8B and Wizardlm 70b specifications
Llama 3-8BWizardlm 70b
ProviderMetaMicrosoft
Noometry Index25.533.0
Released2024-04-18—
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked3412

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Llama 3-8B: 31.0 (#289), Wizardlm 70b: 31.4 (#285)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-8BWizardlm 70b
LMArena Coding11521081
BigCodeBench Instruct31.9%—
BigCodeBench Complete36.9%—
HumanEval+56.7%—
MBPP+54.8%—

Reasoning Wizardlm 70b leads

Llama 3-8B: 14.3 (#326), Wizardlm 70b: 20.7 (#234)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-8BWizardlm 70b
LMArena Hard Prompts11331079
Chess Puzzles0%—
DTBench43.9%—
Adversarial NLI57.3%—
Epoch Capabilities Index116.45—
ForecastBench58.6—
WinoGrande75.7%—

Math Wizardlm 70b leads

Llama 3-8B: 8.8 (#323), Wizardlm 70b: 32.2 (#218)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-8BWizardlm 70b
LMArena Math11511116
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.9%—
MATH Level 56.1%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Llama 3-8B: 7.8 (#308), Wizardlm 70b: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-8BWizardlm 70b
GPQA Diamond26.1%—
LMArena Expert1113—
ARC (AI2) Challenge82.8%—
MMLU68.8%—
OpenBookQA82.6%—
TriviaQA67.7%—

Multilingual Llama 3-8B leads

Llama 3-8B: 30.8 (#261), Wizardlm 70b: 29.6 (#265)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-8BWizardlm 70b
LMArena Non-English10981078
LMArena Chinese10761052
LMArena German11041083
LMArena Russian11091155
LMArena French1159—
LMArena Japanese967—
LMArena Korean1004—
LMArena Spanish1173—

Instruction Following Llama 3-8B leads

Llama 3-8B: 58.4 (#260), Wizardlm 70b: 56.3 (#273)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-8BWizardlm 70b
LMArena Instruction Following11271093

Long Context Too close to call

Llama 3-8B: 34.2 (#251), Wizardlm 70b: 33.3 (#263)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-8BWizardlm 70b
LMArena Longer Query11281097

Writing & Preference Llama 3-8B leads

Llama 3-8B: 37.5 (#256), Wizardlm 70b: 34.8 (#269)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-8BWizardlm 70b
LMArena Text11661120
LMArena Creative Writing11501149
LMArena Multi-Turn11521108

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 3-8B better than Wizardlm 70b?

Wizardlm 70b is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.0 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 3-8B or Wizardlm 70b better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (31.0 vs 31.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Llama 3-8B and Wizardlm 70b share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3-8B has 34 scored results on Noometry and Wizardlm 70b has 12.

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