# DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) vs Llama 3-8B

> Llama 3-8B has enough public results to be ranked (#344); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-v2-vs-llama-3-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 7

## Summary

- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher in 1 category and Llama 3-8B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) leads 40.4 to 31.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 59.4% for DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and 36.9% for Llama 3-8B.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 40.3 | 25.5 |
| Rank | — | 344 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): 40.4 (#139)
- Llama 3-8B: 31.0 (#289)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.9% | 31.9% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.4% | 36.9% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1152 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 56.7% |
| MBPP+ | — | 54.8% |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Llama 3-8B: 14.3 (#326)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 124.77 | 116.45 |
| WinoGrande | 86.3% | 75.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1133 |
| DTBench | — | 43.9% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 57.3% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 78.8% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.6 |
| HellaSwag | 87.1% | — |
| PIQA | 83.9% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Llama 3-8B: 8.8 (#323)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 1.9% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1151 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 6.1% |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Llama 3-8B: 7.8 (#308)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 92.2% | 82.8% |
| MMLU | 78.4% | 68.8% |
| TriviaQA | 80% | 67.7% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 26.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1113 |
| OpenBookQA | — | 82.6% |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Llama 3-8B: 30.8 (#261)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1098 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1076 |
| LMArena French | — | 1159 |
| LMArena German | — | 1104 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 967 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1004 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1109 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1173 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Llama 3-8B: 58.4 (#260)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1127 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Llama 3-8B: 34.2 (#251)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1128 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Llama 3-8B: 37.5 (#256)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1166 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1150 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1152 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) better than Llama 3-8B?

Llama 3-8B has enough public results to be ranked (#344); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) or Llama 3-8B better for coding?

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and Llama 3-8B share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has 10 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-8B has 34.