TuRTLe - Icarus Area: leaderboard

The "Icarus Area" subtask of TuRTLe. A task from TuRTLe, evaluating LLMs on RTL / Verilog hardware-description-language code generation and completion, checked with hardware simulators.

Metric: Average Score (%). Source: huggingface.co. Saturation forecast: Around January 2027. 45 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Kimi K2.580.72#144
2GLM-5 FP876.97#143
3DeepSeek R1 052876.86#222
4DeepSeek R175.84#251
5Gemma 4 31B (IT)75.31#176
6DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus72.85#220
7GPT-OSS-120B70#341
8Kimi K2 Instruct (0905)69.2#257
9Gemini 2.5 Flash (Medium)66.61#245 (Gemini 2.5 Flash)
10Qwen 3 Coder 480B A35B61.82#279
11GPT-OSS-20B59.93#518
12Llama 3.1 405B53.81#466
13QwQ-32B53.42#421
14Qwen 2.5 72B49.16#499
15Qwen 2.5 32B46.96#546

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=turtle-icarus-area · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-20.