Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Gemma 3 27B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 38 to 32. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Gemma 3 27B's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 45.6 against 36.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU, 45 to 28. Ministral 3 8B does hit back in instruction following, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Ministral 3 8B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Gemma 3 27B.
Pick Gemma 3 27B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 8B only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority or you need the larger 128K context window.
Gemma 3 27B
34.4
Ministral 3 8B
28.9
Gemma 3 27B
16
Ministral 3 8B
14.2
Gemma 3 27B
41.7
Ministral 3 8B
32.4
Gemma 3 27B
45.6
Ministral 3 8B
36.1
Gemma 3 27B
34.6
Ministral 3 8B
28
Gemma 3 27B
67
Ministral 3 8B
69
Gemma 3 27B
61.4
Ministral 3 8B
61.7
Gemma 3 27B
49.4
Ministral 3 8B
43.3
Gemma 3 27B is ahead overall, 38 to 32. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU, where the scores are 45 and 28.
Gemma 3 27B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 34.6 versus 28. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemma 3 27B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 16 versus 14.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemma 3 27B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 49.4 versus 43.3. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemma 3 27B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 45.6 versus 36.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemma 3 27B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 34.4 versus 28.9. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemma 3 27B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 41.7 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 69 versus 67. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.7 versus 61.4. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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