Model comparison

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct vs Llama 2-70B

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct IBM

30.8

Rank #286 Confirmed

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.4

Rank #349 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.0 2b Instruct scores higher in 4 categories and Llama 2-70B in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads 32.2 to 8.1.

Side by side

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and Llama 2-70B specifications
Granite 3.0 2b InstructLlama 2-70B
ProviderIBMMeta
Noometry Index30.824.4
Released—2023-07-18
WeightsOpenOpen
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Category by category

Coding Llama 2-70B leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 28.3 (#316), Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructLlama 2-70B
LMArena Coding10901079
BigCodeBench Instruct20.5%—

Reasoning Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 20.5 (#235), Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructLlama 2-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts10731073
DTBench—41.6%
BIG-Bench Hard—64.9%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—50%
Epoch Capabilities Index—113.79
ForecastBench—51.4
HellaSwag—85.3%
LAMBADA—78.9%
PIQA—82.8%
WinoGrande—80.2%

Math Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.2 (#217), Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructLlama 2-70B
LMArena Math11171091
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—0%
MATH Level 5—3.3%
GSM8K—69.6%

Knowledge Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.0 (#241), Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructLlama 2-70B
LMArena Expert10641039
GPQA Diamond—26.3%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—88.6%
MMLU—69.9%
OpenBookQA—60.2%
TriviaQA—87.6%

Multilingual Too close to call

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.0 (#278), Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructLlama 2-70B
LMArena Non-English10331045
LMArena Chinese1070995
LMArena Russian10451083
LMArena French—1090
LMArena German—1041
LMArena Japanese—927
LMArena Korean—964
LMArena Spanish—1143

Instruction Following Too close to call

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 53.9 (#284), Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructLlama 2-70B
LMArena Instruction Following10561071

Long Context Too close to call

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.5 (#268), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructLlama 2-70B
LMArena Longer Query10701062

Writing & Preference Llama 2-70B leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.6 (#292), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructLlama 2-70B
LMArena Text10801115
LMArena Creative Writing10461075
LMArena Multi-Turn10531088

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 3.0 2b Instruct better than Llama 2-70B?

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Granite 3.0 2b Instruct or Llama 2-70B better for coding?

Llama 2-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.4 versus 28.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and Llama 2-70B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has 13 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.

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