Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
NVIDIA
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B was developed by NVIDIA through customization of Meta's Llama 3.1 70B, designed to enhance performance for specific use cases and deployments. Built with NVIDIA's optimizations and fine-tuning expertise, it demonstrates how foundation models can be adapted for specialized applications.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-Next 80B Base was introduced as an experimental base model with 80 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters. Built to explore advanced mixture-of-experts architectures, it provides a foundation for fine-tuning and research into efficient large-scale model design.
11 months newer

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct
NVIDIA
2024-10-01

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-09-10
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct
2023-12-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base