Side-by-side benchmark comparison across knowledge, coding, math, and reasoning.
Gemma 3 27B has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 42 versus 39. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
Gemma 3 27B gives you the larger context window at 32K, compared with 16K for Phi-4.
Pick Gemma 3 27B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Phi-4 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Gemma 3 27B
37.3
Phi-4
70.5
Gemma 3 27B
22.7
Phi-4
82.6
Gemma 3 27B
64
Phi-4
80.6
Gemma 3 27B is ahead overall, 42 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 37 and 82.6.
Phi-4 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 37.3. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Phi-4 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 82.6 versus 22.7. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Phi-4 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.6 versus 64. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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