Model comparison
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct vs Llama 3.1-405B
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Llama 3.1-405B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.1 vs 30.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Llama 3.1-405B in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Llama 3.1-405B leads 40.9 to 27.4.
Side by side
| Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 3.1-405B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 31.1 | 30.4 |
| Released | — | 2024-07-23 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 14 | 42 |
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Category by category
Coding Llama 3.1-405B leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.1 (#297), Llama 3.1-405B: 32.7 (#257)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1113 | 1291 |
| WeirdML | — | 21.4% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29.3% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 35.4% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: —, Llama 3.1-405B: 20.9 (#131)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 7.4% |
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |
Reasoning Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 20.0 (#227), Llama 3.1-405B: 16.4 (#293)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1092 | 1270 |
| SimpleBench | — | 23% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 45% |
| DTBench | — | 61.4% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 82.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 128.76 |
| ForecastBench | — | 59.9 |
| HellaSwag | — | 89.2% |
| PIQA | — | 85.9% |
| WinoGrande | — | 89.2% |
Math Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 30.3 (#211), Llama 3.1-405B: 17.3 (#283)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1143 | 1281 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 9.7% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 24.9% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 49.8% |
Knowledge Llama 3.1-405B leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.1 (#233), Llama 3.1-405B: 30.4 (#221)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1087 | 1243 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 50.9% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 72.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 17.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 52.2% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 95.3% |
| MMLU | — | 84.5% |
| TriviaQA | — | 82.7% |
Multilingual Llama 3.1-405B leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 27.4 (#271), Llama 3.1-405B: 40.9 (#209)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1037 | 1248 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1063 | 1242 |
| LMArena Russian | 1060 | 1265 |
| LMArena French | — | 1278 |
| LMArena German | — | 1252 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1208 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1184 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1259 |
Instruction Following Llama 3.1-405B leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 56.2 (#271), Llama 3.1-405B: 66.1 (#209)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1088 | 1259 |
| IFEval | — | 81.1% |
Long Context Llama 3.1-405B leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 34.0 (#247), Llama 3.1-405B: 38.4 (#192)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1122 | 1266 |
Writing & Preference Llama 3.1-405B leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 31.2 (#280), Llama 3.1-405B: 39.1 (#246)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1096 | 1284 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1071 | 1262 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1063 | 1297 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 870 |
| WildBench | — | 78.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct better than Llama 3.1-405B?
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Llama 3.1-405B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.1 vs 30.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct or Llama 3.1-405B better for coding?
Llama 3.1-405B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.7 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Llama 3.1-405B share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-405B has 42.