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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 12:13:06 +0200
From: Dmitry Khovratovich <khovratovich@...il.com>
To: "discussions@...sword-hashing.net" <discussions@...sword-hashing.net>
Subject: Re: [PHC] Argon2 CPU/GPU benchmarks

Hi Alexander,

thank you for the benchmarks! We are still working to produce new code
(enhanced + Maxform) that can be used for future testing. Please feel free
to ask for specific code change that might favor GPU portability.

I have several questions:

1) Would you attribute these results to the existing Argon2 parallelism in
the compression function (8 x parallel Blake2)? Do you already exploit this
feature? If yes, then we already have a more sequential pattern in mind,
that would be great to test with or without Maxform.

2) How do you get these extrapolation numbers for Titan X? What are these
numbers in the denominator?

Best regards,
Dmitry

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 4:09 AM, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Agnieszka Bielec produced OpenCL implementations of Argon2d and 2i, and
> ran benchmarks at the same 1.5 MiB level that we had used for Lyra2 vs.
> yescrypt testing.
>
> IIUC, these are for Argon2 1.0, before BlaMka and the indexing function
> enhancement.
>
> Argon2i t=3 m=1536
> i7-4770K - 2480
> GeForce GTX 960M - 1861
> Radeon HD 7970 GE (*) - 1288
> GeForce GTX TITAN (**) - 2805
>
> Argon2d t=1 m=1536
> i7-4770K - 7808
> GeForce GTX 960M - 4227
> Radeon HD 7970 GE (*) - 2742
> GeForce GTX TITAN (**) - 6083
>
> (*) We actually use one GPU in HD 7990 at 1.0 GHz, which is equivalent
> to HD 7970 GE.
> (**) With slight overclocking by the GPU card vendor.
>
> Raw detail:
>
> http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-dev/2015/08/17/62
>
> I am especially concerned about the 960M (a mobile GPU with 65W TDP)
> performing surprisingly well, at 75% of CPU speed for 2i and 54% for 2d.
> This means that a larger desktop/gaming/server Maxwell GPU will
> trivially outperform the CPU.  Per these tables comparing Maxwell GPUs:
>
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units#GeForce_900M_.289xxM.29_Series
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units#GeForce_900_Series
>
> GTX Titan X is more than 4 times larger than the 960M.  We need to add
> it to the mix and see.
>
> We also see the older Kepler architecture GTX TITAN outperform i7-4770K
> slightly for 2i (2805/2480 = 1.13) and reach a CPU-like speed for 2d
> (6083/7808 = 0.78).  This is much worse than what we saw for Lyra2 and
> yescrypt, but isn't as impressive as 960M's result.
>
> The speeds on AMD GCN are worse than I had expected.  Perhaps there's
> still much room for optimization here.
>
> Argon2i vs. Lyra2:
>
> 2480/1861 / (3792/629) = 0.22
> 2480/1288 / (3792/2844) = 1.44
> 2480/2805 / (3792/1638) = 0.38
>
> Argon2d vs. Lyra2:
>
> 7808/4227 / (3792/629) = 0.31
> 7808/2742 / (3792/2844) = 2.14
> 7808/6083 / (3792/1638) = 0.55
>
> Argon2 behaves a lot worse than Lyra2 on both NVIDIAs, but better on AMD
> GCN (it's unclear why; probably a current implementation issue).
>
> Argon2i vs. yescrypt:
>
> 2480/1861 / (4736/419) = 0.12
> 2480/1288 / (4736/914) = 0.37
> 2480/2805 / (4736/1050) = 0.20
>
> Argon2d vs. yescrypt:
>
> 7808/4227 / (4736/419) = 0.16
> 7808/2742 / (4736/914) = 0.55
> 7808/6083 / (4736/1050) = 0.28
>
> Argon2 behaves a lot worse than yescrypt.
>
> The gap on AMD GCN should grow once that code is properly optimized.
>
> Potential results for GTX Titan X:
>
> 2480/(1861*3072/640*1000/1096) / (4736/419) = 0.027
> 7808/(4227*3072/640*1000/1096) / (4736/419) = 0.037
>
> or:
>
> 4736/419 / (2480/(1861*3072/640*1000/1096)) = 37.1
> 4736/419 / (7808/(4227*3072/640*1000/1096)) = 26.8
>
> Thus, Argon2i or 2d might perform 37 or 27 times worse than yescrypt,
> but that's just extrapolation based on the tables at Wikipedia.  We need
> to get a Titan X and see for ourselves.
>
> On the other hand, the final Argon2 should behave better, especially if
> a MAXFORM chain is added.
>
> Alexander
>



-- 
Best regards,
Dmitry Khovratovich

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