Model comparison

Gemma 2B vs Qwen1.5-72B

Qwen1.5-72B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2B Google

29.6

Rank #307 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.8

Rank #285 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen1.5-72B in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen1.5-72B leads 37.3 to 24.0.

Side by side

Gemma 2B and Qwen1.5-72B specifications
Gemma 2BQwen1.5-72B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.630.8
Released2024-02-212024-02-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked2322

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Category by category

Coding Qwen1.5-72B leads

Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305), Qwen1.5-72B: 31.9 (#277)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Coding10101165
HumanEval+20.7%59.1%
MBPP+34.1%61.6%
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—40.3%

Reasoning Qwen1.5-72B leads

Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275), Qwen1.5-72B: 22.2 (#203)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts9891148
BIG-Bench Hard35.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index94.2—
HellaSwag71.4%—
PIQA77.3%—
WinoGrande65.4%—

Math Qwen1.5-72B leads

Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#205)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Math10091164
GSM8K17.7%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemma 2B: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#300)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BQwen1.5-72B
GPQA Diamond—28.8%
LMArena Expert—1136
ARC (AI2) Challenge42.1%—
BoolQ69.4%—
MMLU42.3%—
TriviaQA53.2%—

Multilingual Qwen1.5-72B leads

Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#253)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Non-English9581135
LMArena Chinese9861186
LMArena Russian9371104
LMArena French—1159
LMArena German—1084
LMArena Japanese—1061
LMArena Korean—1050
LMArena Spanish—1110

Instruction Following Qwen1.5-72B leads

Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302), Qwen1.5-72B: 59.3 (#256)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Instruction Following9701141

Long Context Qwen1.5-72B leads

Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291), Qwen1.5-72B: 35.1 (#243)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Longer Query9811157

Writing & Preference Qwen1.5-72B leads

Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308), Qwen1.5-72B: 37.3 (#258)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Text10021166
LMArena Creative Writing9871137
LMArena Multi-Turn9451160

Frequently asked questions

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

Qwen1.5-72B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 2B 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 2B and Qwen1.5-72B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.

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