# DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) vs Gemma 2B

> Gemma 2B has enough public results to be ranked (#307); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-v2-vs-gemma-2b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 8

## Summary

- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher in 1 category and Gemma 2B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) leads 40.4 to 29.4.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Google |
| Noometry Index | 40.3 | 29.6 |
| Rank | — | 307 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): 40.4 (#139)
- Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1010 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.4% | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 20.7% |
| MBPP+ | — | 34.1% |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| BIG-Bench Hard | 78.8% | 35.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 124.77 | 94.2 |
| HellaSwag | 87.1% | 71.4% |
| PIQA | 83.9% | 77.3% |
| WinoGrande | 86.3% | 65.4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 989 |

## Math

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1009 |
| GSM8K | — | 17.7% |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Gemma 2B: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 92.2% | 42.1% |
| MMLU | 78.4% | 42.3% |
| TriviaQA | 80% | 53.2% |
| BoolQ | — | 69.4% |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 958 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 986 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 937 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 970 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 981 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1002 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 987 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 945 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) better than Gemma 2B?

Gemma 2B has enough public results to be ranked (#307); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) or Gemma 2B better for coding?

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and Gemma 2B share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has 10 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2B has 23.