Model comparison

Falcon-7B vs Gemma 2 9B

Gemma 2 9B has enough public results to be ranked (#341); Falcon-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2 9B Google

25.9

Rank #341 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both.

Side by side

Falcon-7B and Gemma 2 9B specifications
Falcon-7BGemma 2 9B
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteGoogle
Noometry Index—25.9
Released2023-04-242024-06-24
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked1235

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGemma 2 9B
BigCodeBench Instruct—34.7%
LiveBench Coding—22.5%
LMArena Coding—1173
BigCodeBench Complete—40.6%

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGemma 2 9B
Epoch Capabilities Index95.1119.83
PIQA80.3%83.7%
LiveBench Reasoning—15.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1171
LiveBench Data Analysis—36.4%
BIG-Bench Hard28.8%—
HellaSwag78.1%—
LAMBADA74.9%—
LiveBench—28.7%
WinoGrande67.2%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGemma 2 9B
GSM8K6.8%84.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—0.6%
LiveBench Math—19.8%
LMArena Math—1183
MATH Level 5—21%

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGemma 2 9B
BoolQ75.3%85.7%
MMLU35%72.1%
GPQA Diamond—27.5%
LMArena Expert—1147
ARC (AI2) Challenge47.9%—
OpenBookQA51.6%—
TriviaQA64.6%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGemma 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-7B: —, Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGemma 2 9B
LiveBench Instruction Following—52.6%
LMArena Instruction Following—1178

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGemma 2 9B
LMArena Longer Query—1197

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGemma 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-7B better than Gemma 2 9B?

Gemma 2 9B has enough public results to be ranked (#341); Falcon-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-7B and Gemma 2 9B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-7B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 9B has 35.

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