# Llama 2-34B vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

> Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has enough public results to be ranked (#155); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-2-34b-vs-nemotron-3-5-lightning
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 2-34B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | — | 40.0 |
| Rank | — | 155 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.05 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 40.4 (#141)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1375 |

## Reasoning

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 26.8 (#127)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1337 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 44.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 105.2 | — |
| PIQA | 81.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 76.7% | — |

## Math

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 37.5 (#155)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1359 |
| GSM8K | 42.2% | — |

## Knowledge

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 37.5 (#154)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1356 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 54.5% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.7% | — |
| MMLU | 62.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 58.2% | — |
| TriviaQA | 84.6% | — |

## Multilingual

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 44.0 (#180)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1295 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1359 |
| LMArena French | — | 1366 |
| LMArena German | — | 1282 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1206 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1238 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1253 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1345 |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 69.6 (#170)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1318 |

## Long Context

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 39.9 (#165)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1314 |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 48.5 (#201)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1327 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1254 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1280 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1328 |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 2-34B better than Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has enough public results to be ranked (#155); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 2-34B and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-34B has 10 scored results on Noometry and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has 18.