Model comparison

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct vs Llama 2-13B

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.2 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct IBM

30.2

Rank #284 Confirmed

Llama 2-13B Meta

29.1

Rank #304 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.0 2b Instruct scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 2-13B in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads 19.6 to 12.3.

Side by side

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and Llama 2-13B specifications
Granite 3.0 2b InstructLlama 2-13B
ProviderIBMMeta
Noometry Index30.229.1
Released—2023-07-18
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked1332

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Category by category

Coding Llama 2-13B leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.8 (#311), Llama 2-13B: 30.4 (#287)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructLlama 2-13B
LMArena Coding10901062
BigCodeBench Instruct20.5%—

Reasoning Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 19.6 (#234), Llama 2-13B: 12.3 (#333)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructLlama 2-13B
LMArena Hard Prompts10731051
Chess Puzzles—0%
DTBench—42.2%
BIG-Bench Hard—58.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—105.8
HellaSwag—80.7%
LAMBADA—76.5%
PIQA—80.8%
WinoGrande—72.8%

Math Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.7 (#215), Llama 2-13B: 28.7 (#226)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructLlama 2-13B
LMArena Math11171065
GSM8K—36.9%

Knowledge Too close to call

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 28.4 (#238), Llama 2-13B: 27.5 (#244)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructLlama 2-13B
LMArena Expert10641030
ARC (AI2) Challenge—60.3%
BoolQ—82.4%
MMLU—55.6%
OpenBookQA—57%
TriviaQA—79.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: —, Llama 2-13B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructLlama 2-13B
ScienceQA—55.8%

Multilingual Too close to call

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.1 (#273), Llama 2-13B: 26.7 (#274)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructLlama 2-13B
LMArena Non-English10331024
LMArena Chinese10701001
LMArena Russian10451055
LMArena French—1043
LMArena German—1009
LMArena Japanese—894
LMArena Korean—953
LMArena Spanish—1086

Instruction Following Too close to call

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 54.2 (#279), Llama 2-13B: 53.5 (#282)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructLlama 2-13B
LMArena Instruction Following10561046

Long Context Too close to call

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.5 (#263), Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#264)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructLlama 2-13B
LMArena Longer Query10711064

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.8 (#287), Llama 2-13B: 30.0 (#284)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructLlama 2-13B
LMArena Text10801085
LMArena Creative Writing10461047
LMArena Multi-Turn10531050

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 3.0 2b Instruct better than Llama 2-13B?

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.2 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Granite 3.0 2b Instruct or Llama 2-13B better for coding?

Llama 2-13B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.4 versus 27.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and Llama 2-13B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has 13 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-13B has 32.

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