Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Granite-4.0-1B
~40
1/8 categoriesLlama 3 70B
45
Winner · 2/8 categoriesGranite-4.0-1B· Llama 3 70B
Pick Llama 3 70B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-1B only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority.
Llama 3 70B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 45 to 40. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Llama 3 70B's sharpest advantage is in multilingual, where it averages 67.5 against 27.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MGSM, 27.5% to 72%. Granite-4.0-1B does hit back in instruction following, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
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| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-1B | Llama 3 70B |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | — | 37% |
| OSWorld-Verified | — | 41% |
| Coding | ||
| HumanEval | 73% | 50% |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 9% |
| LiveCodeBench | — | 19% |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | 14% |
| Multimodal & Grounded | ||
| MMMU-Pro | — | 50% |
| Reasoning | ||
| BBH | 59.7% | 74% |
| MuSR | — | 54% |
| LongBench v2 | — | 61% |
| MRCRv2 | — | 61% |
| KnowledgeLlama 3 70B wins | ||
| MMLU | 59.7% | 58% |
| GPQA | 29.7% | 58% |
| MMLU-Pro | 32.9% | 55% |
| SuperGPQA | — | 56% |
| FrontierScience | — | 54% |
| SimpleQA | — | 56% |
| Instruction FollowingGranite-4.0-1B wins | ||
| IFEval | 78.5% | 77% |
| MultilingualLlama 3 70B wins | ||
| MGSM | 27.5% | 72% |
| MMLU-ProX | — | 65% |
| Mathematics | ||
| AIME 2023 | — | 58% |
| AIME 2024 | — | 60% |
| AIME 2025 | — | 59% |
| HMMT Feb 2023 | — | 54% |
| HMMT Feb 2024 | — | 56% |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | — | 55% |
| BRUMO 2025 | — | 57% |
| MATH-500 | — | 71% |
Llama 3 70B is ahead overall, 45 to 40. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MGSM, where the scores are 27.5% and 72%.
Llama 3 70B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.6 versus 31.7. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Granite-4.0-1B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 78.5 versus 77. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Llama 3 70B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 67.5 versus 27.5. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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