Model comparison

Falcon-40B vs Gemma 2 27B

Gemma 2 27B has enough public results to be ranked (#302); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both.

Side by side

Falcon-40B and Gemma 2 27B specifications
Falcon-40BGemma 2 27B
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteGoogle
Noometry Index—29.2
Released2023-03-152024-06-24
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—8K
Max output—2K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.65
Output $ / M tokens—$0.65
Results tracked1234

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2 27B: 33.5 (#243)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemma 2 27B
BigCodeBench Instruct—42.8%
LiveBench Coding—36%
LMArena Coding—1211
BigCodeBench Complete—52.5%

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2 27B: 14.8 (#313)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemma 2 27B
Epoch Capabilities Index104.04122.06
LiveBench Reasoning—28.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1199
DTBench—48%
LiveBench Data Analysis—47.9%
LMCA—7.1%
BIG-Bench Hard37.1%—
HellaSwag85.3%—
LAMBADA77.3%—
LiveBench—38.2%
PIQA83%—
WinoGrande76.9%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2 27B: 10.0 (#306)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemma 2 27B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—1.4%
LiveBench Math—26.5%
LMArena Math—1212
MATH Level 5—27.9%
GSM8K33.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2 27B: 18.9 (#275)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemma 2 27B
MMLU56.9%75.7%
GPQA Diamond—36.5%
Confabulations—27.1%
LMArena Expert—1172
ARC (AI2) Challenge61.9%—
BoolQ83.1%—
OpenBookQA56.6%—
TriviaQA79.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2 27B: 38.8 (#221)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemma 2 27B
LMArena Non-English—1217
LMArena Chinese—1221
LMArena French—1246
LMArena German—1209
LMArena Japanese—1175
LMArena Korean—1174
LMArena Russian—1234
LMArena Spanish—1228

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2 27B: 60.7 (#244)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemma 2 27B
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.1%
LMArena Instruction Following—1206

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2 27B: 37.3 (#213)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemma 2 27B
LMArena Longer Query—1231

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2 27B: 44.4 (#220)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemma 2 27B
LMArena Text—1231
LMArena Creative Writing—1241
LMArena Multi-Turn—1224
LiveBench Language—32.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-40B better than Gemma 2 27B?

Gemma 2 27B has enough public results to be ranked (#302); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Gemma 2 27B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 27B has 34.

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