Model comparison
Falcon-40B vs Gemma 2 9B
Gemma 2 9B has enough public results to be ranked (#341); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation Institute
GoogleSummary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both.
Side by side
| Falcon-40B | Gemma 2 9B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | |
| Noometry Index | — | 25.9 |
| Released | 2023-03-15 | 2024-06-24 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 12 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 34.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 22.5% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1173 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 40.6% |
Reasoning Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 104.45 | 119.83 |
| PIQA | 83% | 83.7% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 15.2% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1171 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 36.4% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | — |
| LAMBADA | 77.3% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 28.7% |
| WinoGrande | 76.9% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 33.8% | 84.9% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 0.6% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 19.8% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1183 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 21% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| BoolQ | 83.1% | 85.7% |
| MMLU | 56.9% | 72.1% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 27.5% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1147 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 61.9% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.9% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1188 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1185 |
| LMArena French | — | 1190 |
| LMArena German | — | 1186 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1144 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1137 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1200 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1200 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 52.6% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1178 |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1197 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1207 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1206 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 841 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1193 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 25.5% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-40B better than Gemma 2 9B?
Gemma 2 9B has enough public results to be ranked (#341); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Gemma 2 9B share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 9B has 35.