Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Llama 3.2 90B

Gemini 3.8 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.8 Flash Google

61.8

Rank #11 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 90B Meta

27.5

Rank #331 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.8 Flash scores higher in 5 categories and Llama 3.2 90B in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.8 Flash leads 76.9 to 21.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 98.9% for Gemini 3.8 Flash and 2.6% for Llama 3.2 90B.
  • Llama 3.2 90B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.8 FlashLlama 3.2 90B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index61.827.5
Released2026-09-022024-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.75—
Output $ / M tokens$3.75—
Results tracked509

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 59.2 (#15), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashLlama 3.2 90B
DeepSWE73.8%—
FrontierCode41.2%—
CursorBench39.6%—
LMArena WebDev1584—
FrontierSWE19.6%—
SciCode56.6%—
WeirdML84.8%—
LMArena Coding1510—
ALE-Bench1,270—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 41.8 (#21), Llama 3.2 90B: 30.0 (#80)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashLlama 3.2 90B
APEX-Agents64.3%—
Remote Labor Index5.8%—
BALROG—27.3%
GDP.pdf23.4%—
Vending-Bench 25,094—

Reasoning Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 76.9 (#5), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#217)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashLlama 3.2 90B
Epoch Capabilities Index156.71125.5
ARC-AGI-289.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)97.4%—
ARC-AGI-198.5%—
CritPt18.3%—
Chess Puzzles61%—
EnigmaEval—0.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts1508—
Mystery Game Puzzles47%—
DTBench95.7%—
LMCA52.9%—
Surface Evolver Bench76.9%—

Math Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 65.3 (#28), Llama 3.2 90B: 11.1 (#308)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashLlama 3.2 90B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.9%2.6%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)68.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
ProofBench48%—
LMArena Math1528—
MATH Level 5—39.4%

Knowledge Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 74.8 (#2), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#274)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashLlama 3.2 90B
GPQA Diamond95.4%41%
Humanity's Last Exam44.5%—
SimpleQA Verified69.7%—
LMArena Expert1524—
MMLU—80.3%

Multimodal Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 40.7 (#45), Llama 3.2 90B: 25.4 (#124)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Vision13141000
GeoBench—52%
Blueprint-Bench 238.6%—
Furniture Assembly31.7%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 58.0 (#5), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Non-English1491—
LMArena Chinese1554—
LMArena French1498—
LMArena German1493—
LMArena Japanese1502—
LMArena Korean1459—
LMArena Russian1515—
LMArena Spanish1485—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 78.0 (#13), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Instruction Following1490—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 46.3 (#24), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Longer Query1508—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 72.2 (#15), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Text1499—
LMArena Creative Writing1492—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1748—
LMArena Multi-Turn1501—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.8 Flash better than Llama 3.2 90B?

Gemini 3.8 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.8 Flash and Llama 3.2 90B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.8 Flash has 50 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 90B has 9.

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