Model comparison

Gemma 1.1 2b IT vs Mixtral 8x7B

Gemma 1.1 2b IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.8 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 1.1 2b IT Google

28.8

Rank #313 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x7B Mistral AI

26.8

Rank #328 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 1.1 2b IT scores higher in 3 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemma 1.1 2b IT leads 26.0 to 11.0.

Side by side

Gemma 1.1 2b IT and Mixtral 8x7B specifications
Gemma 1.1 2b ITMixtral 8x7B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index28.826.8
Released—2023-12-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—32K
Max output—32K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$0.70
Results tracked1638

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Category by category

Coding Mixtral 8x7B leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 29.6 (#294), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.2 (#265)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Coding10341127
HumanEval+17.7%39.6%
MBPP+23.3%49.7%

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 18.2 (#268), Mixtral 8x7B: 17.4 (#283)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Hard Prompts10051115
DTBench—49.6%
Adversarial NLI—55.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—118.38
ForecastBench—56.3
HellaSwag—86.7%
PIQA—83.6%
WinoGrande—77.2%

Math Gemma 1.1 2b IT leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 28.3 (#230), Mixtral 8x7B: 17.2 (#284)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Math10471147
Omni-MATH—10.5%
MATH Level 5—10%
GSM8K—74.4%

Knowledge Gemma 1.1 2b IT leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 26.0 (#255), Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#296)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Expert9701088
GPQA Diamond—30.6%
MMLU-Pro—33.5%
GPQA (HELM)—29.6%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—87.3%
MMLU—70.6%
OpenBookQA—85.8%
TriviaQA—82.2%

Multilingual Mixtral 8x7B leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 24.7 (#284), Mixtral 8x7B: 29.8 (#261)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Non-English9881077
LMArena Chinese10111055
LMArena German9441114
LMArena Korean899968
LMArena Russian9901090
LMArena French—1165
LMArena Japanese—931
LMArena Spanish—1110

Instruction Following Mixtral 8x7B leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 50.1 (#294), Mixtral 8x7B: 51.2 (#292)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Instruction Following9921110
IFEval—57.5%

Long Context Mixtral 8x7B leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.5 (#281), Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#255)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Longer Query10031103

Writing & Preference Mixtral 8x7B leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 25.3 (#301), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.4 (#265)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Text10221132
LMArena Creative Writing9981109
LMArena Multi-Turn9581115
WildBench—67.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 1.1 2b IT better than Mixtral 8x7B?

Gemma 1.1 2b IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.8 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 1.1 2b IT or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?

Mixtral 8x7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.2 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 1.1 2b IT and Mixtral 8x7B share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 1.1 2b IT has 16 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.

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