Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Llama 3 70B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 45 to 31. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Llama 3 70B's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 59.6 against 35.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 50 to 16.
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while Llama 3 70B is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use.
Pick Llama 3 70B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning) only becomes the better choice if you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.
Llama 3 70B
41.2
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
34
Llama 3 70B
15.8
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
7.2
Llama 3 70B
52.3
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
30.4
Llama 3 70B
59.6
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
35.3
Llama 3 70B
42.2
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
25.2
Llama 3 70B
77
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
68
Llama 3 70B
67.5
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
59.7
Llama 3 70B
63.3
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
40.9
Llama 3 70B is ahead overall, 45 to 31. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 50 and 16.
Llama 3 70B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 42.2 versus 25.2. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Llama 3 70B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 15.8 versus 7.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Llama 3 70B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 63.3 versus 40.9. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Llama 3 70B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 59.6 versus 35.3. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Llama 3 70B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 41.2 versus 34. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Llama 3 70B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.3 versus 30.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Llama 3 70B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 77 versus 68. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Llama 3 70B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 67.5 versus 59.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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