Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs Gemma 2 9B
Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.8 to 25.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation Institute
GoogleSummary
- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and Gemma 2 9B in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Gemma 2 9B leads 36.8 to 25.3.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | Gemma 2 9B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | |
| Noometry Index | 31.8 | 25.7 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | 2024-06-24 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 16 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Gemma 2 9B: 29.0 (#299)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 34.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 22.5% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1174 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 40.6% |
Reasoning Falcon-180B leads
Falcon-180B: 18.3 (#266), Gemma 2 9B: 15.3 (#306)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1172 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.89 | 119.78 |
| PIQA | 84.9% | 83.7% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 15.2% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 36.4% |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 28.7% |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Gemma 2 9B: 9.3 (#312)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 54.4% | 84.9% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 0.6% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 19.8% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1183 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 21% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#300)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| BoolQ | 89% | 85.7% |
| MMLU | 70.6% | 72.1% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 27.5% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1147 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multilingual Gemma 2 9B leads
Falcon-180B: 25.3 (#281), Gemma 2 9B: 36.8 (#233)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1188 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1185 |
| LMArena French | — | 1189 |
| LMArena German | — | 1186 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1144 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1137 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1200 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1200 |
Instruction Following Gemma 2 9B leads
Falcon-180B: 53.6 (#281), Gemma 2 9B: 57.8 (#264)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1178 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 52.6% |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#228)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1197 |
Writing & Preference Gemma 2 9B leads
Falcon-180B: 29.3 (#290), Gemma 2 9B: 32.3 (#276)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1207 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1206 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1193 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 841 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 25.5% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than Gemma 2 9B?
Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.8 to 25.7 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Gemma 2 9B share?
11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 9B has 35.