Model comparison

Gemma 2 9B vs Phi-2

Gemma 2 9B has enough public results to be ranked (#341); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2 9B Google

25.9

Rank #341 Confirmed

Phi-2 Microsoft

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Unranked

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both.

Side by side

Gemma 2 9B and Phi-2 specifications
Gemma 2 9BPhi-2
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index25.9—
Released2024-06-242023-12-12
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3511

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304), Phi-2: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BPhi-2
BigCodeBench Instruct34.7%—
LiveBench Coding22.5%—
LMArena Coding1173—
BigCodeBench Complete40.6%—
HumanEval+—45.1%
MBPP+—54.2%

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309), Phi-2: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BPhi-2
Epoch Capabilities Index119.83107.94
LiveBench Reasoning15.2%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1171—
LiveBench Data Analysis36.4%—
Adversarial NLI—42.5%
BIG-Bench Hard—59.4%
HellaSwag—53.6%
LiveBench28.7%—
PIQA83.7%—
WinoGrande—54.7%

Math Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318), Phi-2: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BPhi-2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250.6%—
LiveBench Math19.8%—
LMArena Math1183—
MATH Level 521%—
GSM8K84.9%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305), Phi-2: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BPhi-2
MMLU72.1%58.4%
GPQA Diamond27.5%—
LMArena Expert1147—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—75.9%
BoolQ85.7%—
OpenBookQA—73.6%
TriviaQA—45.2%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238), Phi-2: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BPhi-2
LMArena Non-English1188—
LMArena Chinese1185—
LMArena French1190—
LMArena German1186—
LMArena Japanese1144—
LMArena Korean1137—
LMArena Russian1200—
LMArena Spanish1200—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269), Phi-2: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BPhi-2
LiveBench Instruction Following52.6%—
LMArena Instruction Following1178—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233), Phi-2: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BPhi-2
LMArena Longer Query1197—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281), Phi-2: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BPhi-2
LMArena Text1207—
LMArena Creative Writing1206—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing841—
LMArena Multi-Turn1193—
LiveBench Language25.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 2 9B better than Phi-2?

Gemma 2 9B has enough public results to be ranked (#341); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 9B and Phi-2 share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 9B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Phi-2 has 11.

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