Model comparison

Gemma 1.1 7b IT vs Llama 2-70B

Gemma 1.1 7b IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.3 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 1.1 7b IT Google

31.3

Rank #277 Confirmed

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.4

Rank #349 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 1.1 7b IT scores higher in 5 categories and Llama 2-70B in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 1.1 7b IT leads 32.0 to 8.1.

Side by side

Gemma 1.1 7b IT and Llama 2-70B specifications
Gemma 1.1 7b ITLlama 2-70B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index31.324.4
Released—2023-07-18
WeightsOpenOpen
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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 31.5 (#284), Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITLlama 2-70B
LMArena Coding10841079
HumanEval+35.4%—
MBPP+45%—

Reasoning Gemma 1.1 7b IT leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 20.5 (#238), Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITLlama 2-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts10711073
DTBench—41.6%
BIG-Bench Hard—64.9%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—50%
Epoch Capabilities Index—113.79
ForecastBench—51.4
HellaSwag—85.3%
LAMBADA—78.9%
PIQA—82.8%
WinoGrande—80.2%

Math Gemma 1.1 7b IT leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 32.0 (#220), Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITLlama 2-70B
LMArena Math11071091
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—0%
MATH Level 5—3.3%
GSM8K—69.6%

Knowledge Gemma 1.1 7b IT leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 28.3 (#247), Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITLlama 2-70B
LMArena Expert10391039
GPQA Diamond—26.3%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—88.6%
MMLU—69.9%
OpenBookQA—60.2%
TriviaQA—87.6%

Multilingual Too close to call

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 28.1 (#273), Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITLlama 2-70B
LMArena Non-English10521045
LMArena Chinese1061995
LMArena French10651090
LMArena German10541041
LMArena Japanese971927
LMArena Korean988964
LMArena Russian10461083
LMArena Spanish10491143

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 54.0 (#283), Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITLlama 2-70B
LMArena Instruction Following10571071

Long Context Too close to call

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 32.1 (#272), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITLlama 2-70B
LMArena Longer Query10561062

Writing & Preference Llama 2-70B leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 30.4 (#288), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITLlama 2-70B
LMArena Text10941115
LMArena Creative Writing10601075
LMArena Multi-Turn10401088

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 1.1 7b IT better than Llama 2-70B?

Gemma 1.1 7b IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.3 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 1.1 7b IT or Llama 2-70B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (31.5 vs 31.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 1.1 7b IT and Llama 2-70B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 1.1 7b IT has 19 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.

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