Model comparison
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct vs Qwen1.5-72B
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and Qwen1.5-72B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 30.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.0 2b Instruct scores higher in 1 category and Qwen1.5-72B in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads 29.0 to 11.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Instruct: 20.5% for Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and 33.2% for Qwen1.5-72B.
Side by side
| Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Qwen1.5-72B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | 30.8 |
| Released | — | 2024-02-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 13 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen1.5-72B leads
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 28.3 (#316), Qwen1.5-72B: 31.9 (#277)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 20.5% | 33.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1090 | 1165 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 40.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 59.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 61.6% |
Reasoning Qwen1.5-72B leads
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 20.5 (#235), Qwen1.5-72B: 22.2 (#203)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1073 | 1148 |
Math Too close to call
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.2 (#217), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#205)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1117 | 1164 |
Knowledge Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.0 (#241), Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#300)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1064 | 1136 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 28.8% |
Multilingual Qwen1.5-72B leads
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.0 (#278), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#253)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1033 | 1135 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1070 | 1186 |
| LMArena Russian | 1045 | 1104 |
| LMArena French | — | 1159 |
| LMArena German | — | 1084 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1061 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1050 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1110 |
Instruction Following Qwen1.5-72B leads
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 53.9 (#284), Qwen1.5-72B: 59.3 (#256)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1056 | 1141 |
Long Context Qwen1.5-72B leads
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.5 (#268), Qwen1.5-72B: 35.1 (#243)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1070 | 1157 |
Writing & Preference Qwen1.5-72B leads
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.6 (#292), Qwen1.5-72B: 37.3 (#258)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1080 | 1166 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1046 | 1137 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1053 | 1160 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 3.0 2b Instruct better than Qwen1.5-72B?
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and Qwen1.5-72B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 30.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Granite 3.0 2b Instruct or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?
Qwen1.5-72B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.9 versus 28.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and Qwen1.5-72B share?
13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has 13 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.