Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs Llama 3-70B

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.8 to 28.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.5

Rank #317 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and Llama 3-70B in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Llama 3-70B leads 43.0 to 29.3.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and Llama 3-70B specifications
Falcon-180BLlama 3-70B
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteMeta
Noometry Index31.828.5
Released2023-09-062024-04-18
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked1631

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Llama 3-70B: 35.3 (#215)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BLlama 3-70B
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.6%
LMArena Coding—1206
BigCodeBench Complete—54.5%
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Llama 3-70B: 20.9 (#132)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BLlama 3-70B
Cybench—5%

Reasoning Too close to call

Falcon-180B: 18.3 (#266), Llama 3-70B: 17.4 (#284)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BLlama 3-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts10071195
Epoch Capabilities Index111.89122.91
WinoGrande87.1%83.5%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—35.1%
DTBench—54.2%
ForecastBench—57.1
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Llama 3-70B: 12.0 (#299)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BLlama 3-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—4.3%
LMArena Math—1218
MATH Level 5—22.6%
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#272)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BLlama 3-70B
MMLU70.6%79.3%
GPQA Diamond—40.6%
LMArena Expert—1149
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multilingual Llama 3-70B leads

Falcon-180B: 25.3 (#281), Llama 3-70B: 33.8 (#246)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BLlama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English10001142
LMArena Chinese—1114
LMArena French—1231
LMArena German—1169
LMArena Japanese—1017
LMArena Korean—1017
LMArena Russian—1159
LMArena Spanish—1241

Instruction Following Llama 3-70B leads

Falcon-180B: 53.6 (#281), Llama 3-70B: 62.8 (#233)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BLlama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following10471194

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#235)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BLlama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query—1174

Writing & Preference Llama 3-70B leads

Falcon-180B: 29.3 (#290), Llama 3-70B: 43.0 (#225)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BLlama 3-70B
LMArena Text10541221
LMArena Creative Writing10891210
LMArena Multi-Turn10131223

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than Llama 3-70B?

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.8 to 28.5 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Llama 3-70B share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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