Model comparison
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct vs StarCoder 2 7B
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#270); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIASummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and StarCoder 2 7B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where StarCoder 2 7B leads 34.8 to 29.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 35.4% for Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and 27.7% for StarCoder 2 7B.
Side by side
| Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | StarCoder 2 7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 31.6 | 37.0 |
| Released | — | 2024-02-20 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 14 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding StarCoder 2 7B leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.7 (#301), StarCoder 2 7B: 34.8
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Complete | 35.4% | 27.7% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29.3% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1112 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 29.9% |
Reasoning Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 20.9 (#230), StarCoder 2 7B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1092 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 93.56 |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |
Math Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 32.8 (#210), StarCoder 2 7B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1143 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 32.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.6 (#236), StarCoder 2 7B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1087 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 38.7% |
| MMLU | — | 38.8% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 27.2 (#276), StarCoder 2 7B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1037 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1063 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1060 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 56.0 (#276), StarCoder 2 7B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1088 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 34.0 (#252), StarCoder 2 7B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1122 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#285), StarCoder 2 7B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1096 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1071 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1063 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct better than StarCoder 2 7B?
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#270); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct or StarCoder 2 7B better for coding?
StarCoder 2 7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.8 versus 29.7 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and StarCoder 2 7B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 7B has 7.