Model comparison

Gemma 2B vs Llama 2-70B

Gemma 2B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.6 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2B Google

29.6

Rank #307 Confirmed

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.4

Rank #349 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2B scores higher in 2 categories and Llama 2-70B in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 2B leads 30.0 to 8.1.

Side by side

Gemma 2B and Llama 2-70B specifications
Gemma 2BLlama 2-70B
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index29.624.4
Released2024-02-212023-07-18
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked2335

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Category by category

Coding Llama 2-70B leads

Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305), Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BLlama 2-70B
LMArena Coding10101079
HumanEval+20.7%—
MBPP+34.1%—

Reasoning Gemma 2B leads

Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275), Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BLlama 2-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts9891073
BIG-Bench Hard35.2%64.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index94.2113.79
HellaSwag71.4%85.3%
PIQA77.3%82.8%
WinoGrande65.4%80.2%
DTBench—41.6%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—50%
ForecastBench—51.4
LAMBADA—78.9%

Math Gemma 2B leads

Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239), Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BLlama 2-70B
LMArena Math10091091
GSM8K17.7%69.6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—0%
MATH Level 5—3.3%

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemma 2B: —, Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BLlama 2-70B
ARC (AI2) Challenge42.1%78.3%
BoolQ69.4%88.6%
MMLU42.3%69.9%
TriviaQA53.2%87.6%
GPQA Diamond—26.3%
LMArena Expert—1039
OpenBookQA—60.2%

Multilingual Llama 2-70B leads

Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294), Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BLlama 2-70B
LMArena Non-English9581045
LMArena Chinese986995
LMArena Russian9371083
LMArena French—1090
LMArena German—1041
LMArena Japanese—927
LMArena Korean—964
LMArena Spanish—1143

Instruction Following Llama 2-70B leads

Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302), Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BLlama 2-70B
LMArena Instruction Following9701071

Long Context Llama 2-70B leads

Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BLlama 2-70B
LMArena Longer Query9811062

Writing & Preference Llama 2-70B leads

Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BLlama 2-70B
LMArena Text10021115
LMArena Creative Writing9871075
LMArena Multi-Turn9451088

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 2B better than Llama 2-70B?

Gemma 2B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.6 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 2B or Llama 2-70B better for coding?

Llama 2-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.4 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 2B and Llama 2-70B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.

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