Model comparison
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct vs Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.6 vs 31.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIASummary
- They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct scores higher in 4 categories and Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads 34.0 to 30.4.
Side by side
| Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 31.6 | 31.8 |
| Released | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 14 | 9 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.7 (#301), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 29.9 (#300)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1112 | 1025 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29.3% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 35.4% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 20.9 (#230), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 20.0 (#246)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1092 | 1047 |
Math Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 32.8 (#210), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 31.3 (#226)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1143 | 1072 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.6 (#236), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1087 | — |
Multilingual Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 27.2 (#276), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 28.8 (#270)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1037 | 1063 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1063 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1060 | — |
Instruction Following Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 56.0 (#276), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 54.2 (#279)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1088 | 1060 |
Long Context Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 34.0 (#252), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 30.4 (#288)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1122 | 998 |
Writing & Preference Too close to call
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#285), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 31.6 (#283)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1096 | 1098 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1071 | 1091 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1063 | 1058 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct better than Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat?
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.6 vs 31.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct or Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (29.7 vs 29.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat share?
9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat has 9.