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		remcob on May 6, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Analyzing Modern Nvidia GPU Cores It’s well known GPUs are good at cryptography. Starting with hash functions (e.g. crypto mining) but also zero knowledge proofs and multi party computation.

saagarjha on May 6, 2025 [–]

They're not particularly good at cryptography, but they are good at highly parallel tasks like trying a bunch of hashes.

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