Model comparison

Gemma 2B vs Qwen1.5-32B

Gemma 2B and Qwen1.5-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.1 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2B Google

29.1

Rank #305 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.0

Rank #288 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen1.5-32B in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen1.5-32B leads 34.4 to 24.1.

Side by side

Gemma 2B and Qwen1.5-32B specifications
Gemma 2BQwen1.5-32B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.130.0
Released2024-02-212024-02-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked2321

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Category by category

Coding Qwen1.5-32B leads

Gemma 2B: 28.9 (#300), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.1 (#278)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Coding10101155
BigCodeBench Instruct—32.3%
BigCodeBench Complete—42%
HumanEval+20.7%—
MBPP+34.1%—

Reasoning Qwen1.5-32B leads

Gemma 2B: 17.9 (#275), Qwen1.5-32B: 20.9 (#210)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts9891131
BIG-Bench Hard35.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index93.57—
HellaSwag71.4%—
PIQA77.3%—
WinoGrande65.4%—

Math Qwen1.5-32B leads

Gemma 2B: 27.6 (#237), Qwen1.5-32B: 30.5 (#207)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Math10091155
GSM8K17.7%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemma 2B: —, Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#291)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BQwen1.5-32B
MMLU42.3%74.4%
GPQA Diamond—30.7%
LMArena Expert—1126
ARC (AI2) Challenge42.1%—
BoolQ69.4%—
TriviaQA53.2%—

Multilingual Qwen1.5-32B leads

Gemma 2B: 23.1 (#289), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.6 (#254)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Non-English9581106
LMArena Chinese9861176
LMArena Russian9371073
LMArena French—1100
LMArena German—1058
LMArena Japanese—1027
LMArena Korean—1007
LMArena Spanish—1089

Instruction Following Qwen1.5-32B leads

Gemma 2B: 48.8 (#297), Qwen1.5-32B: 58.0 (#260)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Instruction Following9711116

Long Context Qwen1.5-32B leads

Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#286), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#241)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Longer Query9811146

Writing & Preference Qwen1.5-32B leads

Gemma 2B: 24.1 (#303), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.4 (#266)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Text10021137
LMArena Creative Writing9861083
LMArena Multi-Turn9451140

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 2B better than Qwen1.5-32B?

Gemma 2B and Qwen1.5-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.1 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemma 2B or Qwen1.5-32B better for coding?

Qwen1.5-32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.1 versus 28.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 2B and Qwen1.5-32B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-32B has 21.

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