Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs Gemma 2 9B

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.7 to 25.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B Google

29.7

Rank #292 Confirmed

Gemma 2 9B Google

25.7

Rank #334 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 2 9B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads 43.0 to 32.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 33% for Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and 27.5% for Gemma 2 9B.
  • Gemma 2 9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 2 9B
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index29.725.7
Released2024-10-032024-06-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked2135

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 34.9 (#221), Gemma 2 9B: 29.0 (#299)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 2 9B
LMArena Coding12181174
BigCodeBench Instruct—34.7%
LiveBench Coding—22.5%
BigCodeBench Complete—40.6%

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 19.2 (#242), Gemma 2 9B: 15.3 (#306)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 2 9B
LMArena Hard Prompts12101172
LiveBench Reasoning—15.2%
DTBench50%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—36.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—119.78
LiveBench—28.7%
PIQA—83.7%

Math Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 13.3 (#296), Gemma 2 9B: 9.3 (#312)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 2 9B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.6%0.6%
LMArena Math12071183
LiveBench Math—19.8%
MATH Level 5—21%
GSM8K—84.9%

Knowledge Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#285), Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#300)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 2 9B
GPQA Diamond33%27.5%
LMArena Expert11851147
BoolQ—85.7%
MMLU—72.1%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 27.6 (#110), Gemma 2 9B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 2 9B
LMArena Vision1044—

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.6 (#224), Gemma 2 9B: 36.8 (#233)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 2 9B
LMArena Non-English12151188
LMArena Chinese12311185
LMArena French12331189
LMArena German12061186
LMArena Japanese11501144
LMArena Korean11401137
LMArena Russian12361200
LMArena Spanish12121200

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 63.1 (#231), Gemma 2 9B: 57.8 (#264)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 2 9B
LMArena Instruction Following11991178
LiveBench Instruction Following—52.6%

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 36.9 (#220), Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#228)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 2 9B
LMArena Longer Query12191197

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 43.0 (#227), Gemma 2 9B: 32.3 (#276)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 2 9B
LMArena Text12261207
LMArena Creative Writing12181206
LMArena Multi-Turn11851193
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—841
LiveBench Language—25.5%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than Gemma 2 9B?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.7 to 25.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B or Gemma 2 9B better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.9 versus 29.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Gemma 2 9B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 9B has 35.

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