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Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:34:14 +0100
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: GPU based cracking, AMD or NVIDIA
On 9 Dec, 2012, at 0:19 , Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 11:40:38PM +0100, magnum wrote:
>> On 8 Dec, 2012, at 19:57 , Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
>>> Are you aware of any password cracking related task where GTX 680 is any
>>> faster than GTX 580? I've only seen (non-JtR) benchmarks showing it
>>> being slower - often several times slower, even. (I don't have one to
>>> test myself, though.)
>>
>> With late OpenCL drivers the gap has decreased a lot, or the 680 has even become the winner at times - with a really tiny margin. I have never seen the 680 significantly outperform a 580 in any application. Like you, I have seen the opposite but I think that was mostly due to premature drivers that did not handle Kepler well.
>
> This is interesting. Can you post any specific benchmark results?
Will do. The only concrete example I have from memory is NTLMv2, which is not a good comparison because it is severaly limited by transfer speed. Anyhow, I saw the Kepler win with what looked "significant" to my eye (but that might be just above 19M vs just below 18M, which is not a great deal) and the two machines were identical except for the GPU cards. This fits with what Milen says.
But I am also pretty sure I have seen "slow" formats perform just a tiny bit better with Kepler at slow formats, with decent drivers. I'll collect some statistics next time I get a chance.
Regardless of what single-digit percentage boosts I *may* report later, this is silly. A GTX680 released 2012 should be significantly faster than a GTX580 from 2010. Someone please explain Moore law to nvidia :-)
magnum
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