Model comparison

Granite 4.0 H Small vs Llama 3-8B

Granite 4.0 H Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Granite 4.0 H Small IBM

36.5

Rank #214 Confirmed

Llama 3-8B Meta

25.5

Rank #344 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.0 H Small scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 3-8B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Granite 4.0 H Small leads 32.0 to 7.8.

Side by side

Granite 4.0 H Small and Llama 3-8B specifications
Granite 4.0 H SmallLlama 3-8B
ProviderIBMMeta
Noometry Index36.525.5
Released—2024-04-18
WeightsOpenOpen
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Category by category

Coding Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 36.4 (#209), Llama 3-8B: 31.0 (#289)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallLlama 3-8B
LMArena Coding12491152
BigCodeBench Instruct—31.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—36.9%
HumanEval+—56.7%
MBPP+—54.8%

Reasoning Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 24.4 (#163), Llama 3-8B: 14.3 (#326)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallLlama 3-8B
LMArena Hard Prompts12401133
Chess Puzzles—0%
DTBench—43.9%
Adversarial NLI—57.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—116.45
ForecastBench—58.6
WinoGrande—75.7%

Math Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 31.4 (#223), Llama 3-8B: 8.8 (#323)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallLlama 3-8B
LMArena Math12471151
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—1.9%
Omni-MATH29.6%—
MATH Level 5—6.1%

Knowledge Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 32.0 (#215), Llama 3-8B: 7.8 (#308)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallLlama 3-8B
LMArena Expert12511113
GPQA Diamond—26.1%
MMLU-Pro56.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.2%—
GPQA (HELM)38.3%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—82.8%
MMLU—68.8%
OpenBookQA—82.6%
TriviaQA—67.7%

Multilingual Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 38.6 (#228), Llama 3-8B: 30.8 (#261)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallLlama 3-8B
LMArena Non-English12161098
LMArena Chinese12491076
LMArena Russian12011109
LMArena Spanish12581173
LMArena French—1159
LMArena German—1104
LMArena Japanese—967
LMArena Korean—1004

Instruction Following Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 68.7 (#183), Llama 3-8B: 58.4 (#260)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallLlama 3-8B
LMArena Instruction Following12221127
IFEval89%—

Long Context Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 37.7 (#213), Llama 3-8B: 34.2 (#251)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallLlama 3-8B
LMArena Longer Query12421128

Writing & Preference Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 43.8 (#227), Llama 3-8B: 37.5 (#256)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallLlama 3-8B
LMArena Text12411166
LMArena Creative Writing12111150
LMArena Multi-Turn12421152
WildBench73.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 4.0 H Small better than Llama 3-8B?

Granite 4.0 H Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Granite 4.0 H Small or Llama 3-8B better for coding?

Granite 4.0 H Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.4 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 H Small and Llama 3-8B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 H Small has 19 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-8B has 34.

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