Model comparison
Gemma 2B vs Mixtral 8x7B
Gemma 2B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.6 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2B scores higher in 2 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 2B leads 30.0 to 18.8.
Side by side
| Gemma 2B | Mixtral 8x7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 29.6 | 27.1 |
| Released | 2024-02-21 | 2023-12-11 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 32K |
| Max output | — | 32K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 23 | 38 |
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Category by category
Coding Mixtral 8x7B leads
Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1010 | 1126 |
| HumanEval+ | 20.7% | 39.6% |
| MBPP+ | 34.1% | 49.7% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 989 | 1115 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 94.2 | 118.47 |
| HellaSwag | 71.4% | 86.7% |
| PIQA | 77.3% | 83.6% |
| WinoGrande | 65.4% | 77.2% |
| DTBench | — | 49.6% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.2% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 35.2% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
Math Gemma 2B leads
Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1009 | 1147 |
| GSM8K | 17.7% | 74.4% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 10.5% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 10% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Gemma 2B: —, Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.1% | 87.3% |
| MMLU | 42.3% | 70.6% |
| TriviaQA | 53.2% | 82.2% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 30.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 33.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 29.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1088 |
| BoolQ | 69.4% | — |
| OpenBookQA | — | 85.8% |
Multilingual Mixtral 8x7B leads
Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294), Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 958 | 1077 |
| LMArena Chinese | 986 | 1055 |
| LMArena Russian | 937 | 1090 |
| LMArena French | — | 1166 |
| LMArena German | — | 1114 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 931 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 968 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1111 |
Instruction Following Mixtral 8x7B leads
Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302), Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 970 | 1109 |
| IFEval | — | 57.5% |
Long Context Mixtral 8x7B leads
Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291), Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 981 | 1103 |
Writing & Preference Mixtral 8x7B leads
Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1002 | 1132 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 987 | 1109 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 945 | 1115 |
| WildBench | — | 67.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 2B better than Mixtral 8x7B?
Gemma 2B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.6 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemma 2B or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?
Mixtral 8x7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.8 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 2B and Mixtral 8x7B share?
21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.