Llama 3.1-405B (Meta AI) and Nemotron-4 340B (NVIDIA) are both frontier AI models. Llama 3.1-405B was published in July 2024 and Nemotron-4 340B in June 2024.
Llama 3.1-405B was trained on 3.8 x 10^25 FLOP, about 2.1x the compute of Nemotron-4 340B at 1.8 x 10^25 FLOP. Training compute is the closest available proxy for how much was invested in a model, though it says nothing on its own about how well that compute was spent.
These two models share no benchmark on which both have been scored, so no direct performance comparison is possible here. The specification table below is a comparison of inputs, not of results.
| Field | Llama 3.1-405B | Nemotron-4 340B |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Meta AI | NVIDIA |
| Published | Jul 23, 2024 | Jun 14, 2024 |
| Training compute | 3.8 x 10^25 FLOP | 1.8 x 10^25 FLOP |
| Parameters | 405B | 340B |
| Dataset size | 15.6T | 9T |
| Training hardware | NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB | NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB |
| Chips used | 16,384 | 6,144 |
| Training time | 2.1K h | 2.2K h |
| Training cost (2023 USD) | $53M | $21M |
| Training power draw | 22.6 MW | 8.5 MW |
| Accessibility | Open weights (restricted use) | Open weights (unrestricted) |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes |
| Country | United States | United States |
