Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs Gemma 2B

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.8 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2B Google

29.1

Rank #305 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 4 categories and Gemma 2B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Falcon-180B leads 29.3 to 24.1.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and Gemma 2B specifications
Falcon-180BGemma 2B
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteGoogle
Noometry Index31.829.1
Released2023-09-062024-02-21
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked1623

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemma 2B: 28.9 (#300)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 2B
LMArena Coding—1010
HumanEval+—20.7%
MBPP+—34.1%

Reasoning Too close to call

Falcon-180B: 18.3 (#266), Gemma 2B: 17.9 (#275)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 2B
LMArena Hard Prompts1007989
Epoch Capabilities Index111.8993.57
HellaSwag89%71.4%
PIQA84.9%77.3%
WinoGrande87.1%65.4%
BIG-Bench Hard—35.2%
LAMBADA79.8%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemma 2B: 27.6 (#237)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 2B
GSM8K54.4%17.7%
LMArena Math—1009

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemma 2B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 2B
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%42.1%
BoolQ89%69.4%
MMLU70.6%42.3%
OpenBookQA64.2%—
TriviaQA—53.2%

Multilingual Falcon-180B leads

Falcon-180B: 25.3 (#281), Gemma 2B: 23.1 (#289)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 2B
LMArena Non-English1000958
LMArena Chinese—986
LMArena Russian—937

Instruction Following Falcon-180B leads

Falcon-180B: 53.6 (#281), Gemma 2B: 48.8 (#297)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 2B
LMArena Instruction Following1047971

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#286)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 2B
LMArena Longer Query—981

Writing & Preference Falcon-180B leads

Falcon-180B: 29.3 (#290), Gemma 2B: 24.1 (#303)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 2B
LMArena Text10541002
LMArena Creative Writing1089986
LMArena Multi-Turn1013945

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than Gemma 2B?

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.8 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Gemma 2B share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2B has 23.

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