Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs Gemma 2 9B

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B Google

29.9

Rank #301 Confirmed

Gemma 2 9B Google

25.9

Rank #341 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 2 9B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads 42.8 to 32.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 33% for Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and 27.5% for Gemma 2 9B.
  • Gemma 2 9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 2 9B
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index29.925.9
Released2024-10-032024-06-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked2135

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 35.5 (#225), Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 2 9B
LMArena Coding12181173
BigCodeBench Instruct—34.7%
LiveBench Coding—22.5%
BigCodeBench Complete—40.6%

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244), Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 2 9B
LMArena Hard Prompts12091171
LiveBench Reasoning—15.2%
DTBench50%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—36.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—119.83
LiveBench—28.7%
PIQA—83.7%

Math Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302), Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 2 9B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.6%0.6%
LMArena Math12071183
LiveBench Math—19.8%
MATH Level 5—21%
GSM8K—84.9%

Knowledge Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289), Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 2 9B
GPQA Diamond33%27.5%
LMArena Expert11851147
BoolQ—85.7%
MMLU—72.1%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115), Gemma 2 9B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 2 9B
LMArena Vision1044—

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229), Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 2 9B
LMArena Non-English12151188
LMArena Chinese12311185
LMArena French12341190
LMArena German12061186
LMArena Japanese11501144
LMArena Korean11401137
LMArena Russian12361200
LMArena Spanish12121200

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 62.8 (#236), Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 2 9B
LMArena Instruction Following11991178
LiveBench Instruction Following—52.6%

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225), Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 2 9B
LMArena Longer Query12191197

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232), Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 2 9B
LMArena Text12261207
LMArena Creative Writing12181206
LMArena Multi-Turn11851193
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—841
LiveBench Language—25.5%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than Gemma 2 9B?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B or Gemma 2 9B better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Gemma 2 9B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 9B has 35.

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