Model comparison
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct vs StarCoder 2 7B
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#284); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIASummary
- The widest gap is in coding, where StarCoder 2 7B leads 34.2 to 27.8.
Side by side
| Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | StarCoder 2 7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | 36.5 |
| Released | — | 2024-02-20 |
| 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 7B leads
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.8 (#311), StarCoder 2 7B: 34.2
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 20.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1090 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.7% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 29.9% |
Reasoning Not comparable
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 19.6 (#234), StarCoder 2 7B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1073 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 92.92 |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |
Math Not comparable
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.7 (#215), StarCoder 2 7B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1117 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 32.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 28.4 (#238), StarCoder 2 7B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1064 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 38.7% |
| MMLU | — | 38.8% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.1 (#273), StarCoder 2 7B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1033 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1070 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1045 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 54.2 (#279), StarCoder 2 7B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1056 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.5 (#263), StarCoder 2 7B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1071 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.8 (#287), StarCoder 2 7B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1080 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1046 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1053 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 3.0 2b Instruct better than StarCoder 2 7B?
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#284); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Granite 3.0 2b Instruct or StarCoder 2 7B better for coding?
StarCoder 2 7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.2 versus 27.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and StarCoder 2 7B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has 13 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 7B has 7.