Is a $30,000 GPU Good at Password Cracking?
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A benchmark comparison of the Nvidia H200, AMD MI300X, and Nvidia RTX 5090 for password cracking using Hashcat reveals that the $30,000 AI accelerators are outperformed by the consumer RTX 5090 across all tested hashing algorithms (MD5, NTLM, bcrypt, SHA-256, SHA-512). The RTX 5090 hashes nearly twice as fast as the H200 at a fraction of the cost. A 2017 IBM rig with eight GTX 1080s matched or beat today's AI accelerators. The takeaway: attackers don't need exotic hardware — weak passwords remain the real risk. Password length is the most effective defense, and organizations should also scan for breached credentials and enforce MFA.
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