Model comparison
Llama 3.1-405B vs Llama 3.2 90B
Llama 3.1-405B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.7 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3.1-405B scores higher in 2 categories and Llama 3.2 90B in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Llama 3.2 90B leads 30.0 to 21.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 49.8% for Llama 3.1-405B and 39.4% for Llama 3.2 90B.
Side by side
| Llama 3.1-405B | Llama 3.2 90B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 30.7 | 27.5 |
| Released | 2024-07-23 | 2024-09-24 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 42 | 9 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Llama 3.1-405B: 33.1 (#262), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 21.4% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1291 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Llama 3.2 90B leads
Llama 3.1-405B: 21.0 (#140), Llama 3.2 90B: 30.0 (#80)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 7.4% | — |
| Cybench | 7.5% | — |
| BALROG | — | 27.3% |
Reasoning Llama 3.2 90B leads
Llama 3.1-405B: 16.8 (#300), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#217)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 128.75 | 125.5 |
| SimpleBench | 23% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 45% | — |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1269 | — |
| DTBench | 61.4% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 82.9% | — |
| ForecastBench | 59.9 | — |
| HellaSwag | 89.2% | — |
| PIQA | 85.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 89.2% | — |
Math Llama 3.1-405B leads
Llama 3.1-405B: 18.4 (#290), Llama 3.2 90B: 11.1 (#308)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 9.7% | 2.6% |
| MATH Level 5 | 49.8% | 39.4% |
| Omni-MATH | 24.9% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1281 | — |
Knowledge Llama 3.1-405B leads
Llama 3.1-405B: 30.4 (#227), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#274)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 50.9% | 41% |
| MMLU | 84.5% | 80.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 72.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 17.6% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 52.2% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1243 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 95.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | 82.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Llama 3.1-405B: —, Llama 3.2 90B: 25.4 (#124)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1000 |
| GeoBench | — | 52% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Llama 3.1-405B: 40.7 (#214), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1248 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1242 | — |
| LMArena French | 1279 | — |
| LMArena German | 1252 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1208 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1184 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1265 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1260 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Llama 3.1-405B: 65.9 (#214), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 81.1% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1259 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Llama 3.1-405B: 38.4 (#197), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1266 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Llama 3.1-405B: 38.9 (#251), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1284 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1262 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 870 | — |
| WildBench | 78.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1297 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 3.1-405B better than Llama 3.2 90B?
Llama 3.1-405B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.7 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Llama 3.1-405B and Llama 3.2 90B share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.1-405B has 42 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 90B has 9.