Model comparison

Granite 4.0 H Small vs Llama 3.2 90B

Granite 4.0 H Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

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Granite 4.0 H Small IBM

35.9

Rank #213 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 90B Meta

27.1

Rank #326 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in math, where Granite 4.0 H Small leads 29.3 to 10.4.

Side by side

Granite 4.0 H Small and Llama 3.2 90B specifications
Granite 4.0 H SmallLlama 3.2 90B
ProviderIBMMeta
Noometry Index35.927.1
Released—2024-09-24
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked199

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Granite 4.0 H Small: 35.8 (#207), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Coding1247—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Granite 4.0 H Small: —, Llama 3.2 90B: 29.7 (#73)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallLlama 3.2 90B
BALROG—27.3%

Reasoning Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 23.4 (#164), Llama 3.2 90B: 20.9 (#207)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallLlama 3.2 90B
EnigmaEval—0.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts1240—
Epoch Capabilities Index—125.5

Math Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 29.3 (#219), Llama 3.2 90B: 10.4 (#302)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallLlama 3.2 90B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—2.6%
Omni-MATH29.6%—
LMArena Math1251—
MATH Level 5—39.4%

Knowledge Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 31.5 (#210), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#269)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallLlama 3.2 90B
GPQA Diamond—41%
MMLU-Pro56.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.2%—
GPQA (HELM)38.3%—
LMArena Expert1244—
MMLU—80.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Granite 4.0 H Small: —, Llama 3.2 90B: 24.9 (#119)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Vision—1000
GeoBench—52%

Multilingual Not comparable

Granite 4.0 H Small: 38.7 (#223), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Non-English1216—
LMArena Chinese1250—
LMArena Russian1198—
LMArena Spanish1258—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Granite 4.0 H Small: 68.9 (#178), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallLlama 3.2 90B
IFEval89%—
LMArena Instruction Following1221—

Long Context Not comparable

Granite 4.0 H Small: 37.6 (#209), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Longer Query1240—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Granite 4.0 H Small: 44.0 (#222), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Text1241—
LMArena Creative Writing1210—
WildBench73.9%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1243—

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 4.0 H Small better than Llama 3.2 90B?

Granite 4.0 H Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 H Small and Llama 3.2 90B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 H Small has 19 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 90B has 9.

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