# Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Llama 3.2 90B

> Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-1-5-flash-vs-llama-3-2-90b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 8

## Summary

- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 4 categories and Llama 3.2 90B in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 22.1 to 11.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GeoBench: 76% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 52% for Llama 3.2 90B.
- Llama 3.2 90B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 33.2 | 27.5 |
| Rank | 246 | 331 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236)
- Llama 3.2 90B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 24.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1261 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 75.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 67.5% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102)
- Llama 3.2 90B: 30.0 (#80)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 14.6% | 27.3% |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215)
- Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#217)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.36 | 125.5 |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | — |
| DTBench | 53.8% | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |

## Math

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281)
- Llama 3.2 90B: 11.1 (#308)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | 2.6% |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | 39.4% |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1269 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | 82.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260)
- Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#274)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | 41% |
| MMLU | 77.9% | 80.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | — |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81)
- Llama 3.2 90B: 25.4 (#124)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | 1000 |
| GeoBench | 76% | 52% |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189)
- Llama 3.2 90B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | — |
| LMArena French | 1258 | — |
| LMArena German | 1262 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1221 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1243 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205)
- Llama 3.2 90B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 83.1% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187)
- Llama 3.2 90B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196)
- Llama 3.2 90B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | — |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Llama 3.2 90B?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Llama 3.2 90B share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 90B has 9.