Model comparison
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct vs Llama 3-70B
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.4 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.1 8b Instruct scores higher in 4 categories and Llama 3-70B in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads 33.0 to 12.8.
Side by side
| Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Llama 3-70B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 32.4 | 28.8 |
| Released | — | 2024-04-18 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 13 | 31 |
Sponsored placements are available on pages like this one. Advertise on Noometry
Category by category
Coding Llama 3-70B leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 34.5 (#233), Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1186 | 1206 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 43.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.5% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 72% |
| MBPP+ | — | 69% |
Agentic & Tool Use Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 24.1 (#120), Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 27.1% | — |
| Cybench | — | 5% |
Reasoning Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 22.1 (#207), Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1145 | 1195 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 35.1% |
| DTBench | — | 54.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 122.93 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.1 |
| WinoGrande | — | 83.5% |
Math Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 33.0 (#209), Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1152 | 1218 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 4.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 22.6% |
Knowledge Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#220), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1142 | 1149 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 40.6% |
| MMLU | — | 79.3% |
Multilingual Llama 3-70B leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.9 (#260), Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1099 | 1142 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1145 | 1114 |
| LMArena Russian | 1092 | 1159 |
| LMArena French | — | 1232 |
| LMArena German | — | 1169 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1017 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1017 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1241 |
Instruction Following Llama 3-70B leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 58.6 (#259), Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1131 | 1194 |
Long Context Too close to call
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.2 (#241), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1162 | 1174 |
Writing & Preference Llama 3-70B leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.5 (#266), Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1150 | 1221 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1129 | 1210 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1108 | 1223 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 3.1 8b Instruct better than Llama 3-70B?
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.4 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.
Is Granite 3.1 8b Instruct or Llama 3-70B better for coding?
Llama 3-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 34.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Granite 3.1 8b Instruct and Llama 3-70B share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has 13 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.