Intel's Open-Source Linux Compute Stack Maturing Very Well For Arc Graphics

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 13 March 2023 at 12:00 PM EDT. Page 4 of 8. 15 Comments.
Hashcat benchmark with settings of Benchmark: MD5. Intel Arc A770 was the fastest.

The next OpenCL benchmark, Hashcat, with the OpenCL driver headaches across vendors is one where Intel Arc Graphics on the Compute Runtime was running well along with the NVIDIA OpenCL driver but the AMD OpenCL setup on Ubuntu 23.04 was failing to run this password recovery tool. The Hashcat MD5 performance was better for the A750/A770 than both the RTX 2060 and RTX 3060.

Hashcat benchmark with settings of Benchmark: MD5. Intel Arc A770 was the fastest.
Hashcat benchmark with settings of Benchmark: MD5. Intel Arc A770 was the fastest.

On a performance-per-Watt basis the Arc Graphics DG2/Alchemist cards were comparable to the tested NVIDIA GPUs.

Hashcat benchmark with settings of Benchmark: MD5. Intel Arc A770 was the fastest.

While on a performance-per-dollar basis the Arc Graphics A750 led.

Hashcat benchmark with settings of Benchmark: SHA1. Intel Arc A770 was the fastest.
Hashcat benchmark with settings of Benchmark: SHA1. Intel Arc A770 was the fastest.
Hashcat benchmark with settings of Benchmark: SHA1. Intel Arc A770 was the fastest.

For the SHA1 algorithm with Hashcat, the Intel Arc Graphics also led in raw performance and power efficiency.

Hashcat benchmark with settings of Benchmark: SHA1. Intel Arc A770 was the fastest.

At ~$249, the Arc Graphics A750 also led in performance-per-dollar.

Hashcat benchmark with settings of Benchmark: SHA-512. RTX 2060 was the fastest.

SHA-512 is where the Arc Graphics performance receded compared to the NVIDIA GPUs tested.

Hashcat benchmark with settings of Benchmark: 7-Zip. RTX 2060 was the fastest.

The Arc Graphics also struggled with the 7-Zip Hashcat test.

Hashcat benchmark with settings of Benchmark: TrueCrypt RIPEMD160 + XTS. Intel Arc A770 was the fastest.

Overall it was an interesting race with Hashcat between Arc Graphics and the NVIDIA GeForce GPUs on Linux.


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