Because AWS instances were already running for benchmarking John, decided to compare hashcat on AWS instances. There are lot of GTX 1080 TI / 2080 TI benchmarks on the net, but not lot of AWS GPU instances


Model GPUs vCPU Mem (GiB) GPU Memory (GiB) Network Performance Price
g3.16xlarge 4 64 488 32 25 Gigabit $7.504 
* Device #1: Tesla M60, 1904/7618 MB allocatable, 16MCU
* Device #2: Tesla M60, 1904/7618 MB allocatable, 16MCU
* Device #3: Tesla M60, 1904/7618 MB allocatable, 16MCU
* Device #4: Tesla M60, 1904/7618 MB allocatable, 16MCU

Benchmark of g3.16xlarge


Instance Name Sustained All-Core Turbo Logical Processors Memory Local Storage EBS-Optimized Bandwidth Network Bandwidth Price
m5.metal Up to 3.1 GHz 96 384 GiB – 14 Gbps 25 Gbps $4.608 
* Device #1: pthread-Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8175M CPU @ 2.50GHz, 131072/384589 MB allocatable, 96MCU

Benchmark of m5.metal


i7-8550U CPU, 4 core benchmark:

* Device #1: pthread-Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz, 8192/29652 MB allocatable, 8MCU

Benchmark of i7 cpu