Gamer Flagship RTX 5090 Cracks Passwords Faster Than AI Chips
Specopssoft's bench runs produced a surprising result: the consumer GeForce RTX 5090 outpaced a purpose-built NVIDIA H200 on some password workloads. For bcrypt the RTX hit about 304 kH/s while the H200 managed ~275 kH/s; on SHA-512 the gaming card roughly doubled the accelerator's throughput. Not what you'd expect from a "gamer" part, right?
The root cause is less mystical and more architectural. Hashing tends to use 32-bit integer math (i.e., INT32 ops), and AI accelerators are tuned heavily for tensor/FP formats and NNs—so they sometimes lack spare INT32 muscle. The RTX 5090, by contrast, simply has a lot of general-purpose cores and can chew through those integer-heavy loops (kH/s is the metric here). Of course, real-world results depend on drivers, workload mix, and tuning (e.g., software, thermals, power limits), so this doesn't mean RTX is universally "better"—just that it maps unusually well to these particular cracking kernels.