Model comparison
Gemma 2 9B vs Phi-3.5-mini
Gemma 2 9B has enough public results to be ranked (#334); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 9B scores higher in 0 categories and Phi-3.5-mini in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Phi-3.5-mini leads 34.0 to 29.0.
Side by side
| Gemma 2 9B | Phi-3.5-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | |
| Noometry Index | 25.7 | 36.4 |
| Released | 2024-06-24 | 2024-08-16 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 35 | 5 |
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Category by category
Coding Phi-3.5-mini leads
Gemma 2 9B: 29.0 (#299), Phi-3.5-mini: 34.0 (#231)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 34.7% | 32.8% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 40.6% | 38.5% |
| LiveBench Coding | 22.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1174 | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Gemma 2 9B: 15.3 (#306), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| PIQA | 83.7% | 81% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 15.2% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1172 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 36.4% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.78 | — |
| LiveBench | 28.7% | — |
Math Not comparable
Gemma 2 9B: 9.3 (#312), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 84.9% | 86.2% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0.6% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 19.8% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1183 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 21% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#300), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| BoolQ | 85.7% | 78% |
| GPQA Diamond | 27.5% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1147 | — |
| MMLU | 72.1% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemma 2 9B: 36.8 (#233), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1188 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1185 | — |
| LMArena French | 1189 | — |
| LMArena German | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1144 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1137 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1200 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1200 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemma 2 9B: 57.8 (#264), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 52.6% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1178 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#228), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1197 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Gemma 2 9B: 32.3 (#276), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1207 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1206 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 841 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1193 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.5% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 2 9B better than Phi-3.5-mini?
Gemma 2 9B has enough public results to be ranked (#334); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Gemma 2 9B or Phi-3.5-mini better for coding?
Phi-3.5-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 29.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 9B and Phi-3.5-mini share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 9B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Phi-3.5-mini has 5.