PhysicsFinals: leaderboard
Benchmarklist's label for PHYSICS (Yale, NYU, Notre Dame, 2025): 1,297 PhD-qualifying-exam physics problems in six areas from mechanics to optics; free-form answers checked by SymPy then GPT-4o.
Metric: Score (self-reported). Source: benchmarklist.com. Status: saturated. 33 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qwen2.5-Math-7B | 100 |
| 2 | O3 Mini | 59.9 |
| 3 | DeepSeek R1 | 44.3 |
| 4 | O1 Mini | 43.6 |
| 5 | Gemini 1.5 Pro | 38.4 |
| 6 | GPT-4o | 36.7 |
| 7 | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | 34.7 |
| 8 | Qwen2.5-Math-72B | 32.2 |
| 9 | Llama 3.3 70B | 31.5 |
| 10 | Phi-4 | 29.1 |
| 11 | Qwen 2.5 72B | 28.7 |
| 12 | Qwen 2.5 32B | 27.6 |
| 13 | Qwen 2.5 7B | 20.4 |
| 14 | Qwen 2.5 14B | 19.6 |
| 15 | Gemma 2 27B | 18.3 |
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