Model comparison

Llama 2-70B vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.9 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.4

Rank #349 Confirmed

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct Microsoft

27.9

Rank #328 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-70B scores higher in 6 categories and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads 28.5 to 7.4.

Side by side

Llama 2-70B and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct specifications
Llama 2-70BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
ProviderMetaMicrosoft
Noometry Index24.427.9
Released2023-07-182024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked3535

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Category by category

Coding Llama 2-70B leads

Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#323)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Coding10791093
LiveBench Coding—15.5%
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—54.2%

Reasoning Too close to call

Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 14.1 (#328)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts10731072
BIG-Bench Hard64.9%71.7%
HellaSwag85.3%76.7%
WinoGrande80.2%70.8%
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—26.8%
DTBench41.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—34.7%
Adversarial NLI—52.8%
CommonsenseQA 2.050%—
Epoch Capabilities Index113.79—
ForecastBench51.4—
LAMBADA78.9%—
LiveBench—22.4%
PIQA82.8%—

Math Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads

Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#257)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Math10911111
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250%—
LiveBench Math—15.7%
MATH Level 53.3%—
GSM8K69.6%—

Knowledge Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads

Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 28.5 (#246)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Expert10391045
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.3%84.9%
MMLU69.9%68.8%
OpenBookQA60.2%88%
TriviaQA87.6%64%
GPQA Diamond26.3%—
BoolQ88.6%—

Multilingual Llama 2-70B leads

Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.3 (#280)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Non-English10451021
LMArena Chinese9951021
LMArena French10901076
LMArena German10411044
LMArena Japanese927935
LMArena Korean964905
LMArena Russian10831022
LMArena Spanish11431085

Instruction Following Llama 2-70B leads

Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 47.7 (#303)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following10711053
LiveBench Instruction Following—39.1%

Long Context Too close to call

Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#276)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query10621044

Writing & Preference Llama 2-70B leads

Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.6 (#300)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Text11151073
LMArena Creative Writing10751037
LMArena Multi-Turn10881018
LiveBench Language—9.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-70B better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct?

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.9 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 2-70B or Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better for coding?

Llama 2-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.4 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-70B and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-70B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.

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