Model comparison

Gemma 2B vs Phi-3.5-mini

Gemma 2B has enough public results to be ranked (#307); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2B Google

29.6

Rank #307 Confirmed

Phi-3.5-mini Microsoft

36.9

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2B 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 34.6 to 29.4.

Side by side

Gemma 2B and Phi-3.5-mini specifications
Gemma 2BPhi-3.5-mini
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index29.636.9
Released2024-02-212024-08-16
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked235

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Category by category

Coding Phi-3.5-mini leads

Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305), Phi-3.5-mini: 34.6 (#232)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BPhi-3.5-mini
BigCodeBench Instruct—32.8%
LMArena Coding1010—
BigCodeBench Complete—38.5%
HumanEval+20.7%—
MBPP+34.1%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BPhi-3.5-mini
PIQA77.3%81%
LMArena Hard Prompts989—
BIG-Bench Hard35.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index94.2—
HellaSwag71.4%—
WinoGrande65.4%—

Math Not comparable

Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BPhi-3.5-mini
GSM8K17.7%86.2%
LMArena Math1009—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemma 2B: —, Phi-3.5-mini: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BPhi-3.5-mini
BoolQ69.4%78%
ARC (AI2) Challenge42.1%—
MMLU42.3%—
TriviaQA53.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Non-English958—
LMArena Chinese986—
LMArena Russian937—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Instruction Following970—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Longer Query981—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Text1002—
LMArena Creative Writing987—
LMArena Multi-Turn945—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 2B better than Phi-3.5-mini?

Gemma 2B has enough public results to be ranked (#307); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Gemma 2B or Phi-3.5-mini better for coding?

Phi-3.5-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.6 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 2B and Phi-3.5-mini share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and Phi-3.5-mini has 5.

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