Model comparison

Granite 3.1 2b Instruct vs Llama 2-7B

Granite 3.1 2b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.6 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Granite 3.1 2b Instruct IBM

32.6

Rank #243 Confirmed

Llama 2-7B Meta

28.6

Rank #315 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.1 2b Instruct scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where Granite 3.1 2b Instruct leads 58.0 to 51.0.

Side by side

Granite 3.1 2b Instruct and Llama 2-7B specifications
Granite 3.1 2b InstructLlama 2-7B
ProviderIBMMeta
Noometry Index32.628.6
Released—2023-07-18
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked1229

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Category by category

Coding Granite 3.1 2b Instruct leads

Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 32.9 (#255), Llama 2-7B: 28.7 (#302)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.1 2b InstructLlama 2-7B
LMArena Coding11491002

Reasoning Granite 3.1 2b Instruct leads

Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 21.0 (#206), Llama 2-7B: 15.1 (#309)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.1 2b InstructLlama 2-7B
LMArena Hard Prompts11381009
Chess Puzzles—0%
BIG-Bench Hard—39.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—98.54
HellaSwag—77.2%
LAMBADA—73.3%
PIQA—78.8%
WinoGrande—69.2%

Math Granite 3.1 2b Instruct leads

Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 30.6 (#206), Llama 2-7B: 28.2 (#231)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.1 2b InstructLlama 2-7B
LMArena Math11591042
GSM8K—16.7%

Knowledge Granite 3.1 2b Instruct leads

Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 30.3 (#223), Llama 2-7B: 27.7 (#243)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.1 2b InstructLlama 2-7B
LMArena Expert11311036
ARC (AI2) Challenge—45.9%
BoolQ—77.9%
MMLU—45.8%
OpenBookQA—58.6%
TriviaQA—73.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: —, Llama 2-7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.1 2b InstructLlama 2-7B
ScienceQA—43.1%

Multilingual Granite 3.1 2b Instruct leads

Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 29.2 (#264), Llama 2-7B: 23.9 (#288)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.1 2b InstructLlama 2-7B
LMArena Non-English1068973
LMArena Chinese1138973
LMArena Russian1063995
LMArena French—969
LMArena German—978
LMArena Spanish—1007

Instruction Following Granite 3.1 2b Instruct leads

Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 58.0 (#259), Llama 2-7B: 51.0 (#293)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.1 2b InstructLlama 2-7B
LMArena Instruction Following11161006

Long Context Granite 3.1 2b Instruct leads

Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 35.0 (#239), Llama 2-7B: 30.4 (#282)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.1 2b InstructLlama 2-7B
LMArena Longer Query1155999

Writing & Preference Granite 3.1 2b Instruct leads

Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 34.3 (#269), Llama 2-7B: 28.1 (#293)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.1 2b InstructLlama 2-7B
LMArena Text11271053
LMArena Creative Writing11161033
LMArena Multi-Turn10991029

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 3.1 2b Instruct better than Llama 2-7B?

Granite 3.1 2b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.6 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Granite 3.1 2b Instruct or Llama 2-7B better for coding?

Granite 3.1 2b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 28.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Granite 3.1 2b Instruct and Llama 2-7B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.1 2b Instruct has 12 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-7B has 29.

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