# Falcon-40B vs Llama 3.2 90B

> Llama 3.2 90B has enough public results to be ranked (#326); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-40b-vs-llama-3-2-90b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 2

## Summary

- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both.

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-40B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Meta |
| Noometry Index | — | 27.1 |
| Rank | — | 326 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 3.2 90B: 29.7 (#73)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 27.3% |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 3.2 90B: 20.9 (#207)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 104.04 | 125.5 |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.4% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | — |
| LAMBADA | 77.3% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 76.9% | — |

## Math

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 3.2 90B: 10.4 (#302)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.6% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 39.4% |
| GSM8K | 33.8% | — |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#269)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 56.9% | 80.3% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 41% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 61.9% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.1% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 3.2 90B: 24.9 (#119)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1000 |
| GeoBench | — | 52% |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-40B better than Llama 3.2 90B?

Llama 3.2 90B has enough public results to be ranked (#326); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Llama 3.2 90B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 90B has 9.