# DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) vs Gemma 7B

> Gemma 7B has enough public results to be ranked (#295); 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-7b
- 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 7B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) leads 39.8 to 29.9.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Google |
| Noometry Index | 39.7 | 29.5 |
| Rank | — | 295 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): 39.8 (#141)
- Gemma 7B: 29.9 (#290)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1048 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.4% | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 28.7% |
| MBPP+ | — | 43.4% |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Gemma 7B: 19.0 (#247)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| BIG-Bench Hard | 78.8% | 55.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 124.78 | 111.74 |
| HellaSwag | 87.1% | 82.2% |
| PIQA | 83.9% | 81.2% |
| WinoGrande | 86.3% | 79% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1042 |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 48.7% |

## Math

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Gemma 7B: 28.7 (#225)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1066 |
| GSM8K | — | 46.4% |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Gemma 7B: 26.8 (#248)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 92.2% | 78.3% |
| MMLU | 78.4% | 66.1% |
| TriviaQA | 80% | 72.3% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1002 |
| BoolQ | — | 83.2% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 78.6% |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Gemma 7B: 25.3 (#282)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 999 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1035 |
| LMArena French | — | 1024 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 993 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Gemma 7B: 51.7 (#290)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1017 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#277)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1022 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Gemma 7B: 27.2 (#297)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1056 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1024 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 963 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) better than Gemma 7B?

Gemma 7B has enough public results to be ranked (#295); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) or Gemma 7B better for coding?

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.8 versus 29.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and Gemma 7B share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has 10 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 7B has 27.