Model comparison
Granite 4.2 8B vs phi-3-medium 14B
Granite 4.2 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.5 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
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MicrosoftSummary
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Granite 4.2 8B leads 38.4 to 9.1.
Side by side
| Granite 4.2 8B | phi-3-medium 14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 40.5 | 29.7 |
| Released | — | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | — |
| Max output | 118K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.25 | — |
| Results tracked | 11 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding Granite 4.2 8B leads
Granite 4.2 8B: 40.5 (#137), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 8B | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1380 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 48.7% |
Reasoning Not comparable
Granite 4.2 8B: 26.6 (#131), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 8B | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1329 | — |
| 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 8B: —, phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 8B | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | — | 17.6% |
Knowledge Granite 4.2 8B leads
Granite 4.2 8B: 38.4 (#145), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 8B | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 27.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1384 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 91.6% |
| MMLU | — | 78% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 87.4% |
| TriviaQA | — | 73.9% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 4.2 8B: 44.5 (#178), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 8B | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1302 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1366 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1285 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Granite 4.2 8B: 68.7 (#184), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 8B | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1301 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 4.2 8B: 40.3 (#159), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 8B | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1324 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Granite 4.2 8B: 49.6 (#189), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 8B | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1320 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1236 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1301 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.2 8B better than phi-3-medium 14B?
Granite 4.2 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.5 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is Granite 4.2 8B or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?
Granite 4.2 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.5 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.2 8B and phi-3-medium 14B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.2 8B has 11 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.