Model comparison

Gemma 2 9B vs Qwen1.5-14B

Qwen1.5-14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.7 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2 9B Google

25.9

Rank #341 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-14B Alibaba (Qwen)

32.7

Rank #253 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 9B scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen1.5-14B in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen1.5-14B leads 32.4 to 9.9.

Side by side

Gemma 2 9B and Qwen1.5-14B specifications
Gemma 2 9BQwen1.5-14B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index25.932.7
Released2024-06-242024-02-04
WeightsOpenOpen
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Max output——
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Results tracked3517

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Category by category

Coding Qwen1.5-14B leads

Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304), Qwen1.5-14B: 33.1 (#263)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Coding11731138
BigCodeBench Instruct34.7%—
LiveBench Coding22.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete40.6%—

Reasoning Qwen1.5-14B leads

Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309), Qwen1.5-14B: 21.4 (#223)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Hard Prompts11711113
LiveBench Reasoning15.2%—
LiveBench Data Analysis36.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index119.83—
LiveBench28.7%—
PIQA83.7%—

Math Qwen1.5-14B leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318), Qwen1.5-14B: 32.4 (#215)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Math11831125
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250.6%—
LiveBench Math19.8%—
MATH Level 521%—
GSM8K84.9%—

Knowledge Qwen1.5-14B leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305), Qwen1.5-14B: 29.8 (#232)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Expert11471094
MMLU72.1%68.6%
GPQA Diamond27.5%—
BoolQ85.7%—

Multilingual Gemma 2 9B leads

Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238), Qwen1.5-14B: 30.7 (#262)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Non-English11881095
LMArena Chinese11851147
LMArena French11901116
LMArena German11861043
LMArena Japanese11441019
LMArena Russian12001046
LMArena Spanish12001085
LMArena Korean1137—

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269), Qwen1.5-14B: 56.8 (#271)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Instruction Following11781102
LiveBench Instruction Following52.6%—

Long Context Gemma 2 9B leads

Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233), Qwen1.5-14B: 33.7 (#257)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Longer Query11971113

Writing & Preference Qwen1.5-14B leads

Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281), Qwen1.5-14B: 33.6 (#276)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Text12071128
LMArena Creative Writing12061091
LMArena Multi-Turn11931110
EQ-Bench Creative Writing841—
LiveBench Language25.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 2 9B better than Qwen1.5-14B?

Qwen1.5-14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.7 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 2 9B or Qwen1.5-14B better for coding?

Qwen1.5-14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.1 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 9B and Qwen1.5-14B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 9B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-14B has 17.

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