Model comparison
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct vs Llama 3-70B
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.1 to 28.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct scores higher in 3 categories and Llama 3-70B in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads 30.3 to 12.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 35.4% for Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and 54.5% for Llama 3-70B.
Side by side
| Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 3-70B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 31.1 | 28.5 |
| Released | — | 2024-04-18 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 14 | 31 |
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Category by category
Coding Llama 3-70B leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.1 (#297), Llama 3-70B: 35.3 (#215)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29.3% | 43.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1113 | 1206 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 35.4% | 54.5% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 72% |
| MBPP+ | — | 69% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: —, Llama 3-70B: 20.9 (#132)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 5% |
Reasoning Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 20.0 (#227), Llama 3-70B: 17.4 (#284)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1092 | 1195 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 35.1% |
| DTBench | — | 54.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 122.91 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.1 |
| WinoGrande | — | 83.5% |
Math Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 30.3 (#211), Llama 3-70B: 12.0 (#299)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1143 | 1218 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 4.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 22.6% |
Knowledge Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.1 (#233), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#272)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1087 | 1149 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 40.6% |
| MMLU | — | 79.3% |
Multilingual Llama 3-70B leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 27.4 (#271), Llama 3-70B: 33.8 (#246)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1037 | 1142 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1063 | 1114 |
| LMArena Russian | 1060 | 1159 |
| LMArena French | — | 1231 |
| LMArena German | — | 1169 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1017 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1017 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1241 |
Instruction Following Llama 3-70B leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 56.2 (#271), Llama 3-70B: 62.8 (#233)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1088 | 1194 |
Long Context Llama 3-70B leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 34.0 (#247), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#235)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1122 | 1174 |
Writing & Preference Llama 3-70B leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 31.2 (#280), Llama 3-70B: 43.0 (#225)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1096 | 1221 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1071 | 1210 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1063 | 1223 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct better than Llama 3-70B?
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.1 to 28.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct or Llama 3-70B better for coding?
Llama 3-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.3 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Llama 3-70B share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.