Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Llama 3.2 90B

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.7

Rank #23 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 90B Meta

27.1

Rank #326 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro 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 knowledge, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 64.3 to 21.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 91.4% for Gemini 3 Pro 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 Pro and Llama 3.2 90B specifications
Gemini 3 ProLlama 3.2 90B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index54.727.1
Released2025-11-182024-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked679

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.1 (#33), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3.2 90B
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1439—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
LMArena Coding1482—
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.5 (#21), Llama 3.2 90B: 29.7 (#73)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3.2 90B
BALROG58.1%27.3%
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%—
GDPval40.3%—
Remote Labor Index1.3%—
τ²-bench Airline80.5%—
τ²-bench Banking18%—
τ²-bench Retail75.9%—
τ²-bench Telecom91%—
DeepResearch Bench46.3%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons71%—
Vending-Bench 25,478—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#28), Llama 3.2 90B: 20.9 (#207)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3.2 90B
EnigmaEval18.2%0.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index152.96125.5
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
CritPt6.9%—
Chess Puzzles31%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1481—
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 48.8 (#50), Llama 3.2 90B: 10.4 (#302)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3.2 90B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%2.6%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
ProofBench20%—
Omni-MATH55.5%—
LMArena Math1475—
MATH Level 5—39.4%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.3 (#15), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#269)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3.2 90B
GPQA Diamond92.6%41%
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—
LMArena Expert1475—
MMLU—80.3%

Multimodal Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#1), Llama 3.2 90B: 24.9 (#119)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Vision13051000
GeoBench84%52%
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.1 (#14), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Non-English1474—
LMArena Chinese1522—
LMArena French1492—
LMArena German1517—
LMArena Japanese1513—
LMArena Korean1449—
LMArena Russian1493—
LMArena Spanish1468—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.4 (#42), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3.2 90B
IFEval87.7%—
LMArena Instruction Following1458—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#75), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3.2 90B
CL-bench15.8%—
LMArena Longer Query1472—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.6 (#34), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Text1479—
LMArena Creative Writing1482—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1484—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Llama 3.2 90B?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Llama 3.2 90B share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 90B has 9.

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