Model comparison
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct vs Phi-3.5-mini
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#266); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Phi-3.5-mini in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Phi-3.5-mini leads 34.0 to 29.1.
Side by side
| Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Phi-3.5-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 31.1 | 36.4 |
| Released | — | 2024-08-16 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 14 | 5 |
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Category by category
Coding Phi-3.5-mini leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.1 (#297), Phi-3.5-mini: 34.0 (#231)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29.3% | 32.8% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 35.4% | 38.5% |
| LMArena Coding | 1113 | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 20.0 (#227), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1092 | — |
| PIQA | — | 81% |
Math Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 30.3 (#211), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1143 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 86.2% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.1 (#233), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1087 | — |
| BoolQ | — | 78% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 27.4 (#271), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1037 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1063 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1060 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 56.2 (#271), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1088 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 34.0 (#247), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1122 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 31.2 (#280), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1096 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1071 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1063 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct better than Phi-3.5-mini?
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#266); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct or Phi-3.5-mini better for coding?
Phi-3.5-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Phi-3.5-mini share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Phi-3.5-mini has 5.