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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B vs Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct
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Winner summary
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B wins on 8/11 benchmarks
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B wins 8 of 11 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge · language · math.
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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
#163 by perf·no signal
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct
#160 by perf·no signal
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DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Meta AI
$1.87T·Tier 1
Head to head
11 benchmarks · 2 models
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32BMeta Llama 3 8B Instruct
BBH (HuggingFace)
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct leads by +11.1
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
17.1
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct
28.2
GPQA
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B leads by +3.4
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
4.6
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct
1.2
IFEval
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct leads by +32.2
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
41.9
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct
74.1
MATH Level 5
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B leads by +8.4
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
17.1
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct
8.7
MMLU-PRO
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B leads by +11.4
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
41.0
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct
29.6
MUSR
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B leads by +14.5
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
16.1
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct
1.6
JCommonsenseQA
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B leads by +7.6
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
95.3
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct
87.7
JMMLU
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B leads by +25.5
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
72.2
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct
46.7
JNLI
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B leads by +24.5
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
85.6
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct
61.1
JSQuAD
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct leads by +0.3
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
89.2
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct
89.5
LLM-JP · Overall
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B leads by +9.7
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
59.3
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct
49.6
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B | Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
BBH (HuggingFace) | 17.1 | 28.2 |
GPQA | 4.6 | 1.2 |
IFEval | 41.9 | 74.1 |
MATH Level 5 | 17.1 | 8.7 |
MMLU-PRO | 41.0 | 29.6 |
MUSR | 16.1 | 1.6 |
JCommonsenseQA | 95.3 | 87.7 |
JMMLU | 72.2 | 46.7 |
JNLI | 85.6 | 61.1 |
JSQuAD | 89.2 | 89.5 |
LLM-JP · Overall | 59.3 | 49.6 |
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