Model comparison

Falcon-40B vs Gemma 2B

Gemma 2B has enough public results to be ranked (#305); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2B Google

29.1

Rank #305 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both.

Side by side

Falcon-40B and Gemma 2B specifications
Falcon-40BGemma 2B
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteGoogle
Noometry Index—29.1
Released2023-03-152024-02-21
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked1223

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2B: 28.9 (#300)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemma 2B
LMArena Coding—1010
HumanEval+—20.7%
MBPP+—34.1%

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2B: 17.9 (#275)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemma 2B
BIG-Bench Hard37.1%35.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index104.0493.57
HellaSwag85.3%71.4%
PIQA83%77.3%
WinoGrande76.9%65.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts—989
LAMBADA77.3%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2B: 27.6 (#237)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemma 2B
GSM8K33.8%17.7%
LMArena Math—1009

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemma 2B
ARC (AI2) Challenge61.9%42.1%
BoolQ83.1%69.4%
MMLU56.9%42.3%
TriviaQA79.9%53.2%
OpenBookQA56.6%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2B: 23.1 (#289)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemma 2B
LMArena Non-English—958
LMArena Chinese—986
LMArena Russian—937

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2B: 48.8 (#297)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemma 2B
LMArena Instruction Following—971

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#286)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemma 2B
LMArena Longer Query—981

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2B: 24.1 (#303)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemma 2B
LMArena Text—1002
LMArena Creative Writing—986
LMArena Multi-Turn—945

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-40B better than Gemma 2B?

Gemma 2B has enough public results to be ranked (#305); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2B has 23.

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