Model comparison

Gemma 2 9B vs Qwen1.5-72B

Qwen1.5-72B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2 9B Google

25.9

Rank #341 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.8

Rank #285 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 9B scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen1.5-72B in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen1.5-72B leads 33.2 to 9.9.

Side by side

Gemma 2 9B and Qwen1.5-72B specifications
Gemma 2 9BQwen1.5-72B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index25.930.8
Released2024-06-242024-02-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3522

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Category by category

Coding Qwen1.5-72B leads

Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304), Qwen1.5-72B: 31.9 (#277)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen1.5-72B
BigCodeBench Instruct34.7%33.2%
LMArena Coding11731165
BigCodeBench Complete40.6%40.3%
LiveBench Coding22.5%—
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—61.6%

Reasoning Qwen1.5-72B leads

Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309), Qwen1.5-72B: 22.2 (#203)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts11711148
LiveBench Reasoning15.2%—
LiveBench Data Analysis36.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index119.83—
LiveBench28.7%—
PIQA83.7%—

Math Qwen1.5-72B leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#205)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Math11831164
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250.6%—
LiveBench Math19.8%—
MATH Level 521%—
GSM8K84.9%—

Knowledge Qwen1.5-72B leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305), Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#300)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen1.5-72B
GPQA Diamond27.5%28.8%
LMArena Expert11471136
BoolQ85.7%—
MMLU72.1%—

Multilingual Gemma 2 9B leads

Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#253)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Non-English11881135
LMArena Chinese11851186
LMArena French11901159
LMArena German11861084
LMArena Japanese11441061
LMArena Korean11371050
LMArena Russian12001104
LMArena Spanish12001110

Instruction Following Qwen1.5-72B leads

Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269), Qwen1.5-72B: 59.3 (#256)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Instruction Following11781141
LiveBench Instruction Following52.6%—

Long Context Gemma 2 9B leads

Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233), Qwen1.5-72B: 35.1 (#243)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Longer Query11971157

Writing & Preference Qwen1.5-72B leads

Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281), Qwen1.5-72B: 37.3 (#258)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Text12071166
LMArena Creative Writing12061137
LMArena Multi-Turn11931160
EQ-Bench Creative Writing841—
LiveBench Language25.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 2 9B better than Qwen1.5-72B?

Qwen1.5-72B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 2 9B or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?

Qwen1.5-72B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.9 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 9B and Qwen1.5-72B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 9B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.

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