Verdict
Llama 3.1-405B leads 6–0 across 6 shared benchmarks.
Llama 3.1-405B 6 · phi-3-small 7.4B 0 · higher isn't always better — check the caveats below.
Reported scores — protocols may differ. How we compare
Commonsense Reasoning: Llama 3.1-405B leads 2–0 across 2 shared commonsense reasoning benchmarks (largest gap: HellaSwag, 85.6 vs 69.33 — single evaluator).
Knowledge: Llama 3.1-405B leads 2–0 across 2 shared knowledge benchmarks (largest gap: TriviaQA, 82.7 vs 58.1 — single evaluator).
Vendor claims — compare against the measured scores above. A claim is what a developer says about its own model, not an independent measurement.
Context Handling
“These are multilingual and have a significantly longer context length of 128K, state-of-the-art tool use, and overall stronger reasoning capabilities.”
General
“Llama 3.1 405B is in a class of its own, with unmatched flexibility, control, and state-of-the-art capabilities that rival the best closed source models.”
“Llama 3.1 405B is the first openly available model that rivals the top AI models when it comes to state-of-the-art capabilities in general knowledge, steerability, math, tool use”
General
“Phi-3-Small-8K-Instruct is a 7B parameters, lightweight, state-of-the-art open model”
Reasoning
“Phi-3-Small-8K-Instruct showcased a robust and state-of-the-art performance among models of the same-size and next-size-up”
Llama 3.1-405B leads 6–0 across 6 shared benchmarks. Llama 3.1-405B leads 6 benchmarks and phi-3-small 7.4B leads 0. Higher isn't always better — see the integrity caveats on each benchmark.
Llama 3.1-405B and phi-3-small 7.4B have 6 benchmarks in common in our data — those are the only rows where a direct, apples-to-apples comparison is drawn.
Llama 3.1-405B leads commonsense reasoning 2–0. Llama 3.1-405B leads knowledge 2–0.