Model comparison
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct vs StarCoder 2 3B
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#286); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIASummary
- The widest gap is in coding, where StarCoder 2 3B leads 33.5 to 28.3.
Side by side
| Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | StarCoder 2 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | 36.3 |
| Released | — | 2024-02-22 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 13 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding StarCoder 2 3B leads
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 28.3 (#316), StarCoder 2 3B: 33.5
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 20.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1090 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 21.4% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 27.4% |
Reasoning Not comparable
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 20.5 (#235), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1073 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 88.76 |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |
Math Not comparable
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.2 (#217), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1117 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 21.6% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.0 (#241), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1064 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 34.2% |
| MMLU | — | 36.6% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.0 (#278), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1033 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1070 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1045 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 53.9 (#284), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1056 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.5 (#268), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1070 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.6 (#292), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1080 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1046 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1053 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 3.0 2b Instruct better than StarCoder 2 3B?
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#286); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Granite 3.0 2b Instruct or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?
StarCoder 2 3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.5 versus 28.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and StarCoder 2 3B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has 13 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.