Noometry

Model comparison

DBRX vs Gemma 3 27B

Gemma 3 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

DBRX Databricks

29.4

Rank #311 Confirmed

Gemma 3 27B Google

30.8

Rank #284 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 3 categories and Gemma 3 27B in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemma 3 27B leads 52.5 to 33.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 11.7% for DBRX and 74% for Gemma 3 27B.

Side by side

DBRXGemma 3 27B
ProviderDatabricksGoogle
Noometry Index29.430.8
Released2024-03-272025-03-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.08
Output $ / M tokens—$0.16
Results tracked2143

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Category by category

Coding DBRX leads

DBRX: 32.9 (#266), Gemma 3 27B: 22.5 (#334)

BenchmarkDBRXGemma 3 27B
LMArena Coding11321322
Aider Polyglot—4.9%
SciCode—21.2%
LiveBench Coding—39.9%
HumanEval+70.1%—
MBPP+55.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DBRX: —, Gemma 3 27B: 25.1 (#110)

BenchmarkDBRXGemma 3 27B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—29.5%

Reasoning DBRX leads

DBRX: 21.4 (#222), Gemma 3 27B: 16.7 (#301)

BenchmarkDBRXGemma 3 27B
LMArena Hard Prompts11131340
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.4%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—43.8%
DTBench—52.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis—51.5%
LMCA—12.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—130.04
LiveBench—50%

Math Gemma 3 27B leads

DBRX: 24.3 (#269), Gemma 3 27B: 25.9 (#265)

BenchmarkDBRXGemma 3 27B
LMArena Math11451312
MATH Level 511.7%74%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—22.5%
LiveBench Math—55.4%

Knowledge Gemma 3 27B leads

DBRX: 14.9 (#294), Gemma 3 27B: 25.5 (#261)

BenchmarkDBRXGemma 3 27B
GPQA Diamond32.9%47.7%
LMArena Expert10761304
Confabulations—40.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

DBRX: —, Gemma 3 27B: 32.6 (#100)

BenchmarkDBRXGemma 3 27B
LMArena Vision—1164
GeoBench—52%

Multilingual Gemma 3 27B leads

DBRX: 29.3 (#268), Gemma 3 27B: 46.9 (#155)

BenchmarkDBRXGemma 3 27B
LMArena Non-English10711334
LMArena Chinese10681346
LMArena French10961368
LMArena German10571362
LMArena Japanese9901287
LMArena Korean9931308
LMArena Russian10781349
LMArena Spanish10641349

Instruction Following Gemma 3 27B leads

DBRX: 57.5 (#270), Gemma 3 27B: 70.6 (#160)

BenchmarkDBRXGemma 3 27B
LMArena Instruction Following11121321
LiveBench Instruction Following—74.9%

Long Context DBRX leads

DBRX: 33.7 (#258), Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#293)

BenchmarkDBRXGemma 3 27B
LMArena Longer Query11121333
Fiction.LiveBench—33.3%

Writing & Preference Gemma 3 27B leads

DBRX: 33.6 (#275), Gemma 3 27B: 52.5 (#168)

BenchmarkDBRXGemma 3 27B
LMArena Text11191358
LMArena Creative Writing11041346
LMArena Multi-Turn11111345
Short-Story Creative Writing—79.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1266
LiveBench Language—34.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is DBRX better than Gemma 3 27B?

Gemma 3 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is DBRX or Gemma 3 27B better for coding?

DBRX scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 22.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DBRX and Gemma 3 27B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 27B has 43.

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