Noometry

Model comparison

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct vs Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.6 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct IBM

31.6

Rank #270 Confirmed

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct Microsoft

29.3

Rank #314 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct scores higher in 6 categories and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads 20.9 to 14.8.

Side by side

Granite 3.0 8b InstructPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
ProviderIBMMicrosoft
Noometry Index31.629.3
Released—2024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked1432

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Category by category

Coding Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.7 (#301), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Coding11121101
BigCodeBench Instruct29.3%—
LiveBench Coding—20.3%
BigCodeBench Complete35.4%—

Reasoning Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 20.9 (#230), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts10921100
LiveBench Reasoning—15.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis—30.3%
Adversarial NLI—58.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—79.1%
HellaSwag—77%
LiveBench—24%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 32.8 (#210), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Math11431151
LiveBench Math—17.6%

Knowledge Too close to call

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.6 (#236), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Expert10871067
ARC (AI2) Challenge—90.7%
MMLU—75.7%
OpenBookQA—88%
TriviaQA—58.1%

Multilingual Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 27.2 (#276), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Non-English10371058
LMArena Chinese10631061
LMArena Russian10601111
LMArena French—1135
LMArena German—1080
LMArena Japanese—966
LMArena Korean—894
LMArena Spanish—1111

Instruction Following Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 56.0 (#276), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following10881087
LiveBench Instruction Following—47.2%

Long Context Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 34.0 (#252), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query11221088

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#285), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Text10961110
LMArena Creative Writing10711083
LMArena Multi-Turn10631068
LiveBench Language—12.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct better than Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct?

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.6 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct or Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better for coding?

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.7 versus 27.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32.

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