Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Gemma 2B

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

33.2

Rank #246 Confirmed

Gemma 2B Google

29.6

Rank #307 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 6 categories and Gemma 2B in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 48.7 to 24.0.
  • Gemma 2B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Gemma 2B specifications
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 2B
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index33.229.6
Released2024-05-142024-02-21
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked4223

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 2B
LMArena Coding12611010
HumanEval+75.6%20.7%
MBPP+67.5%34.1%
WeirdML24.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), Gemma 2B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 2B
BALROG14.6%—

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 2B
LMArena Hard Prompts1257989
Epoch Capabilities Index129.3694.2
PIQA87.5%77.3%
DTBench53.8%—
BIG-Bench Hard—35.2%
ForecastBench53.9—
HellaSwag—71.4%
WinoGrande—65.4%

Math Gemma 2B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 2B
LMArena Math12691009
GSM8K82.4%17.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%—
Omni-MATH30.4%—
MATH Level 561.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Gemma 2B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 2B
BoolQ85.8%69.4%
MMLU77.9%42.3%
GPQA Diamond47.3%—
MMLU-Pro67.8%—
GPQA (HELM)43.7%—
LMArena Expert1233—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—42.1%
TriviaQA—53.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Gemma 2B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 2B
LMArena Vision1141—
Video-MME70.3%—
GeoBench76%—

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 2B
LMArena Non-English1278958
LMArena Chinese1295986
LMArena Russian1288937
LMArena French1258—
LMArena German1262—
LMArena Japanese1252—
LMArena Korean1221—
LMArena Spanish1243—

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 2B
LMArena Instruction Following1258970
IFEval83.1%—

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 2B
LMArena Longer Query1284981

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 2B
LMArena Text12871002
LMArena Creative Writing1285987
LMArena Multi-Turn1253945
WildBench79.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Gemma 2B?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Gemma 2B better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Gemma 2B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2B has 23.

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