# GPT-4 Turbo vs Llama 3-70B

> GPT-4 Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.5 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-4-turbo-vs-llama-3-70b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 28

## Summary

- They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4 Turbo scores higher in 5 categories and Llama 3-70B in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where GPT-4 Turbo leads 40.5 to 33.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 46.7% for GPT-4 Turbo and 22.6% for Llama 3-70B.
- Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | GPT-4 Turbo | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 30.5 | 28.8 |
| Rank | 292 | 323 |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $10 | — |
| Output $/M | $30 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- GPT-4 Turbo: 33.8 (#249)
- Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.2% | 43.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1268 | 1206 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 58.2% | 54.5% |
| HumanEval+ | 86.6% | 72% |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | 69% |
| WeirdML | 18% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- GPT-4 Turbo: —
- Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 5% |
| METR Time Horizons | 36.7% | — |

## Reasoning

- GPT-4 Turbo: 15.3 (#317)
- Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1251 | 1195 |
| DTBench | 61.6% | 54.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.25 | 122.93 |
| ForecastBench | 59.4 | 57.1 |
| SimpleBench | 25.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 35.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | 6% | — |
| LMCA | 9.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 83.5% |

## Math

- GPT-4 Turbo: 9.0 (#322)
- Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 6.7% | 4.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1272 | 1218 |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.7% | 22.6% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 0.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#268)
- Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 46.6% | 40.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1149 |
| MMLU | 81.3% | 79.3% |
| Confabulations | 28.4% | — |

## Multimodal

- GPT-4 Turbo: 30.6 (#110)
- Llama 3-70B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1090 | — |

## Multilingual

- GPT-4 Turbo: 40.5 (#216)
- Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1245 | 1142 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1242 | 1114 |
| LMArena French | 1276 | 1232 |
| LMArena German | 1259 | 1169 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1194 | 1017 |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | 1017 |
| LMArena Russian | 1259 | 1159 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1260 | 1241 |

## Instruction Following

- GPT-4 Turbo: 65.8 (#216)
- Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1249 | 1194 |

## Long Context

- GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#206)
- Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1254 | 1174 |

## Writing & Preference

- GPT-4 Turbo: 47.7 (#206)
- Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1272 | 1221 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1269 | 1210 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1267 | 1223 |

## FAQ

### Is GPT-4 Turbo better than Llama 3-70B?

GPT-4 Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.5 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Is GPT-4 Turbo or Llama 3-70B better for coding?

Llama 3-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do GPT-4 Turbo and Llama 3-70B share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4 Turbo has 36 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.