Model comparison

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct vs phi-3-medium 14B

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.2 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct IBM

30.2

Rank #284 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.1

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Granite 3.0 2b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and phi-3-medium 14B in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads 28.4 to 9.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Instruct: 20.5% for Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and 37.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.

Side by side

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
Granite 3.0 2b Instructphi-3-medium 14B
ProviderIBMMicrosoft
Noometry Index30.229.1
Released—2024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked1313

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Category by category

Coding phi-3-medium 14B leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.8 (#311), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.3 (#198)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b Instructphi-3-medium 14B
BigCodeBench Instruct20.5%37.6%
LMArena Coding1090—
BigCodeBench Complete—48.7%

Reasoning Not comparable

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 19.6 (#234), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b Instructphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Hard Prompts1073—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—121.18
HellaSwag—82.4%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.7 (#215), phi-3-medium 14B: 25.2 (#249)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b Instructphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Math1117—
MATH Level 5—17.6%

Knowledge Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 28.4 (#238), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#301)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b Instructphi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond—27.6%
LMArena Expert1064—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
MMLU—78%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Multilingual Not comparable

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.1 (#273), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b Instructphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Non-English1033—
LMArena Chinese1070—
LMArena Russian1045—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 54.2 (#279), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b Instructphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1056—

Long Context Not comparable

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.5 (#263), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b Instructphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Longer Query1071—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.8 (#287), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b Instructphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Text1080—
LMArena Creative Writing1046—
LMArena Multi-Turn1053—

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 3.0 2b Instruct better than phi-3-medium 14B?

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.2 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Granite 3.0 2b Instruct or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

phi-3-medium 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.3 versus 27.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and phi-3-medium 14B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has 13 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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