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DeepSeek V3 vs Gemma 3 27B

DeepSeek
DeepSeek V3

DeepSeek · 671B params · Quality: 86

Google
Gemma 3 27B

Google · 27B params · Quality: 76

Architecture Comparison

SpecDeepSeek V3Gemma 3 27B
TypeMOEDENSE
Total Parameters671B27B
Active Parameters37B27B
Layers6162
Hidden Dimension7,1683,584
Attention Heads12832
KV Heads116
Context Length131,072131,072
Precision (default)BF16BF16
Total Experts256N/A
Active Experts8N/A

Memory Requirements

PrecisionDeepSeek V3Gemma 3 27B
BF16 Weights1342.0 GB54.0 GB
FP8 Weights671.0 GB27.0 GB
INT4 Weights335.5 GB13.5 GB
KV-Cache / Token31232 B507904 B
Activation Estimate3.00 GB1.50 GB

Minimum GPUs Needed (BF16)

H100 SXMN/A1 GPU
L40SN/A2 GPUs

Quality Benchmarks

BenchmarkDeepSeek V3Gemma 3 27B
Overall8676
MMLU87.178.0
HumanEval65.048.0
GSM8K89.385.0
MT-Bench87.082.0

DeepSeek V3

MMLU
87.1
HumanEval
65.0
GSM8K
89.3
MT-Bench
87.0

Gemma 3 27B

MMLU
78.0
HumanEval
48.0
GSM8K
85.0
MT-Bench
82.0

Capabilities

FeatureDeepSeek V3Gemma 3 27B
Tool Use✓ Yes✓ Yes
Vision✗ No✓ Yes
Code✓ Yes✓ Yes
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Reasoning✗ No✗ No
Multilingual✓ Yes✓ Yes
Structured Output✓ Yes✓ Yes

API Pricing Comparison

Cheapest Output (DeepSeek V3)

$0.42/M

Input: $0.28/M

Cheapest Output (Gemma 3 27B)

$0.20/M

Input: $0.10/M

ProviderDeepSeek V3 In $/MOut $/MGemma 3 27B In $/MOut $/M
google$0.10$0.20
together$0.50$2.80$0.30$0.30
deepseek$0.28$0.42

Recommendation Summary

  • DeepSeek V3 scores higher on overall quality (86 vs 76).
  • Gemma 3 27B is cheaper per output token ($0.20/M vs $0.42/M).
  • Gemma 3 27B has a smaller memory footprint (54.0 GB vs 1342.0 GB BF16), making it easier to deploy on fewer GPUs.
  • DeepSeek V3 uses MOE architecture while Gemma 3 27B uses DENSE. MoE models activate fewer parameters per token, improving inference efficiency.
  • DeepSeek V3 is stronger at code generation (HumanEval: 65.0 vs 48.0).
  • DeepSeek V3 is better at math reasoning (GSM8K: 89.3 vs 85.0).

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