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Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B Google

29.9

Rank #301 Confirmed

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct Microsoft

27.9

Rank #328 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 6 categories and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads 42.8 to 27.6.
  • Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index29.927.9
Released2024-10-032024-04-23
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), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#323)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Coding12181093
LiveBench Coding—15.5%
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—54.2%

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 14.1 (#328)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts12091072
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—26.8%
DTBench50%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—34.7%
Adversarial NLI—52.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—71.7%
HellaSwag—76.7%
LiveBench—22.4%
WinoGrande—70.8%

Math Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#257)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Math12071111
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.6%—
LiveBench Math—15.7%

Knowledge Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 28.5 (#246)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Expert11851045
GPQA Diamond33%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—84.9%
MMLU—68.8%
OpenBookQA—88%
TriviaQA—64%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Vision1044—

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.3 (#280)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Non-English12151021
LMArena Chinese12311021
LMArena French12341076
LMArena German12061044
LMArena Japanese1150935
LMArena Korean1140905
LMArena Russian12361022
LMArena Spanish12121085

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 62.8 (#236), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 47.7 (#303)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following11991053
LiveBench Instruction Following—39.1%

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#276)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query12191044

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.6 (#300)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Text12261073
LMArena Creative Writing12181037
LMArena Multi-Turn11851018
LiveBench Language—9.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B or Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.

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