Model comparison
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs Granite 3.0 8b Instruct
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Granite 3.0 8b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 31.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher in 6 categories and Granite 3.0 8b Instruct in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads 52.5 to 31.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 57.5% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and 35.4% for Granite 3.0 8b Instruct.
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 31.1 |
| Released | 2024-02-15 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 45 | 14 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 33.8 (#239), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.1 (#297)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.8% | 29.3% |
| LMArena Coding | 1294 | 1113 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.5% | 35.4% |
| WeirdML | 22.2% | — |
| CadEval | 34% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 79.3% | — |
| MBPP+ | 74.6% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.8 (#137), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 3.4% | — |
| Cybench | 7.5% | — |
| BALROG | 21% | — |
Reasoning Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#332), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 20.0 (#227)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1296 | 1092 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 27.1% | — |
| DTBench | 59% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 89.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 131.73 | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |
Math Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 24.4 (#260), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 30.3 (#211)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1315 | 1143 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 23.1% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 36.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 70.4% | — |
Knowledge Too close to call
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.3 (#228), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.1 (#233)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1279 | 1087 |
| GPQA Diamond | 57.2% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 13.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 53.4% | — |
| MMLU | 86.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.2 (#72), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1161 | — |
| Video-MME | 75% | — |
Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.5 (#169), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 27.4 (#271)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1312 | 1037 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1331 | 1063 |
| LMArena Russian | 1320 | 1060 |
| LMArena French | 1301 | — |
| LMArena German | 1286 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1292 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1298 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1310 | — |
Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.8 (#180), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 56.2 (#271)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | 1088 |
| IFEval | 83.7% | — |
Long Context Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.7 (#164), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 34.0 (#247)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1308 | 1122 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.5 (#167), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 31.2 (#280)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1319 | 1096 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1333 | 1071 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1296 | 1063 |
| WildBench | 81.3% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better than Granite 3.0 8b Instruct?
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Granite 3.0 8b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 31.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) or Granite 3.0 8b Instruct better for coding?
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Granite 3.0 8b Instruct share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45 scored results on Noometry and Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has 14.