Model comparison
Gemma 2 27B vs phi-3-medium 14B
Gemma 2 27B and phi-3-medium 14B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.4 vs 29.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 27B scores higher in 1 category and phi-3-medium 14B in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where phi-3-medium 14B leads 27.3 to 10.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 27.9% for Gemma 2 27B and 17.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.
Side by side
| Gemma 2 27B | phi-3-medium 14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | |
| Noometry Index | 29.4 | 29.7 |
| Released | 2024-06-24 | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 8K | — |
| Max output | 2K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.65 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.65 | — |
| Results tracked | 34 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding phi-3-medium 14B leads
Gemma 2 27B: 34.1 (#246), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.8% | 37.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 52.5% | 48.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | 36% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1211 | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Gemma 2 27B: 15.3 (#315), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 122.08 | 121.23 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 28.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1198 | — |
| DTBench | 48% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 47.9% | — |
| LMCA | 7.1% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 81.4% |
| HellaSwag | — | 82.4% |
| LiveBench | 38.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 81.5% |
Math phi-3-medium 14B leads
Gemma 2 27B: 10.7 (#311), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | 27.9% | 17.6% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 26.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1212 | — |
Knowledge Gemma 2 27B leads
Gemma 2 27B: 19.0 (#280), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 36.5% | 27.6% |
| MMLU | 75.7% | 78% |
| Confabulations | 27.1% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1172 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 91.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 87.4% |
| TriviaQA | — | 73.9% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemma 2 27B: 38.6 (#226), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1217 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1221 | — |
| LMArena French | 1247 | — |
| LMArena German | 1209 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1174 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1234 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1228 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemma 2 27B: 60.5 (#249), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 58.1% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1206 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemma 2 27B: 37.3 (#218), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1231 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Gemma 2 27B: 44.2 (#225), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1231 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1241 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1224 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 32.6% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 2 27B better than phi-3-medium 14B?
Gemma 2 27B and phi-3-medium 14B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.4 vs 29.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Gemma 2 27B or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?
phi-3-medium 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.8 versus 34.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 27B and phi-3-medium 14B share?
6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 27B has 34 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.