Model comparison
Granite 4.2 30b vs phi-3-medium 14B
Granite 4.2 30b is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
MicrosoftSummary
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Granite 4.2 30b leads 39.1 to 9.1.
Side by side
| Granite 4.2 30b | phi-3-medium 14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 41.8 | 29.7 |
| Released | — | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 11 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding Granite 4.2 30b leads
Granite 4.2 30b: 41.0 (#126), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30b | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1396 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 48.7% |
Reasoning Not comparable
Granite 4.2 30b: 27.8 (#112), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30b | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1374 | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 81.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 121.23 |
| HellaSwag | — | 82.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 81.5% |
Math Not comparable
Granite 4.2 30b: —, phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30b | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | — | 17.6% |
Knowledge Granite 4.2 30b leads
Granite 4.2 30b: 39.1 (#138), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30b | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 27.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1406 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 91.6% |
| MMLU | — | 78% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 87.4% |
| TriviaQA | — | 73.9% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 4.2 30b: 47.3 (#151), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30b | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1340 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1414 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1343 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Granite 4.2 30b: 71.2 (#155), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30b | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1347 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 4.2 30b: 41.4 (#140), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30b | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1359 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Granite 4.2 30b: 53.8 (#156), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30b | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1361 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1288 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.2 30b better than phi-3-medium 14B?
Granite 4.2 30b is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is Granite 4.2 30b or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?
Granite 4.2 30b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.0 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.2 30b and phi-3-medium 14B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.2 30b has 11 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.