Noometry

Model comparison

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct vs Mixtral 8x22B

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct IBM

30.8

Rank #286 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x22B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #333 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.0 2b Instruct scores higher in 4 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads 29.0 to 15.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Instruct: 20.5% for Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and 40.6% for Mixtral 8x22B.

Side by side

Granite 3.0 2b InstructMixtral 8x22B
ProviderIBMMistral AI
Noometry Index30.827.1
Released—2024-04-17
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—64K
Max output—64K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked1334

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Category by category

Coding Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 28.3 (#316), Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructMixtral 8x22B
BigCodeBench Instruct20.5%40.6%
LMArena Coding10901166
WeirdML—3.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—50.2%
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—64.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructMixtral 8x22B
Cybench—7.5%

Reasoning Too close to call

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 20.5 (#235), Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Hard Prompts10731150
DTBench—55.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—122.03
ForecastBench—56.3

Math Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.2 (#217), Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Math11171184
Omni-MATH—16.3%
MATH Level 5—24.2%

Knowledge Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.0 (#241), Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Expert10641113
GPQA Diamond—34.1%
MMLU-Pro—46%
GPQA (HELM)—33.4%
MMLU—77.8%

Multilingual Mixtral 8x22B leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.0 (#278), Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Non-English10331128
LMArena Chinese10701116
LMArena Russian10451158
LMArena French—1166
LMArena German—1141
LMArena Japanese—1037
LMArena Korean—1057
LMArena Spanish—1151

Instruction Following Mixtral 8x22B leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 53.9 (#284), Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Instruction Following10561147
IFEval—72.4%

Long Context Mixtral 8x22B leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.5 (#268), Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Longer Query10701144

Writing & Preference Mixtral 8x22B leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.6 (#292), Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Text10801162
LMArena Creative Writing10461141
LMArena Multi-Turn10531130
WildBench—71.1%

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 3.0 2b Instruct better than Mixtral 8x22B?

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Granite 3.0 2b Instruct or Mixtral 8x22B better for coding?

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 28.3 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and Mixtral 8x22B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has 13 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.

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