I use a variety of hardware in my day-to-day activities, and was curious to see how they compared to each other. While I could run a micro benchmarking tool to get detailed information on memory, cpu, network and disk throughput, I thought it would be easier to use openssl’s ‘speed’ option to get a rough approximation of each machines capabilities. The results are listed below:
Ultra 10 with (1) 440 MHZ UltraSPARC IIi CPU:
$ openssl speed blowfish
Doing blowfish cbc for 3s on 16 size blocks: 3028371 blowfish cbc's in 2.98s
Doing blowfish cbc for 3s on 64 size blocks: 835818 blowfish cbc's in 2.98s
Doing blowfish cbc for 3s on 256 size blocks: 214738 blowfish cbc's in 2.99s
Doing blowfish cbc for 3s on 1024 size blocks: 54125 blowfish cbc's in 2.99s
Doing blowfish cbc for 3s on 8192 size blocks: 6279 blowfish cbc's in 2.98s
OpenSSL 0.9.7d 17 Mar 2004
built on: date not available
options:bn(64,32) md2(int) rc4(ptr,char) des(ptr,risc1,16,long) aes(partial) blowfish(ptr)
compiler: information not available
available timing options: TIMES TIMEB HZ=100 [sysconf value]
timing function used: times
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.
type 16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes
blowfish cbc 16259.71k 17950.45k 18385.59k 18536.45k 17260.93k
Fujitsu 250 with (1) 900 MHZ UltraSPARC64V CPU:
$ openssl speed blowfish
Doing blowfish cbc for 3s on 16 size blocks: 4086473 blowfish cbc's in 3.00s
Doing blowfish cbc for 3s on 64 size blocks: 1095008 blowfish cbc's in 3.00s
Doing blowfish cbc for 3s on 256 size blocks: 278583 blowfish cbc's in 3.00s
Doing blowfish cbc for 3s on 1024 size blocks: 69931 blowfish cbc's in 3.00s
Doing blowfish cbc for 3s on 8192 size blocks: 8754 blowfish cbc's in 2.99s
OpenSSL 0.9.7d 17 Mar 2004
built on: Wed Mar 17 14:57:19 EST 2004
options:bn(64,32) md2(int) rc4(ptr,char) des(idx,cisc,16,long) aes(partial) idea(int) blowfish(ptr)
compiler: gcc -fPIC -DOPENSSL_THREADS -D_REENTRANT -DDSO_DLFCN -DHAVE_DLFCN_H -DOPENSSL_NO_KRB5 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -DB_ENDIAN -DBN_DIV2W
available timing options: TIMES TIMEB HZ=100 [sysconf value]
timing function used: times
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.
type 16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes
blowfish cbc 21794.52k 23360.17k 23772.42k 23869.78k 23984.20k
Powerbook G4 with (1) 1.5 GHZ G4:
$ openssl speed blowfish
To get the most accurate results, try to run this
program when this computer is idle.
Doing blowfish cbc for 3s on 16 size blocks: 6564697 blowfish cbc's in 2.28s
Doing blowfish cbc for 3s on 64 size blocks: 1781080 blowfish cbc's in 2.23s
Doing blowfish cbc for 3s on 256 size blocks: 482751 blowfish cbc's in 2.35s
Doing blowfish cbc for 3s on 1024 size blocks: 118350 blowfish cbc's in 2.29s
Doing blowfish cbc for 3s on 8192 size blocks: 15444 blowfish cbc's in 2.38s
OpenSSL 0.9.7g 11 Apr 2005
built on: Mon Aug 22 04:38:18 PDT 2005
options:bn(64,32) md2(int) rc4(ptr,char) des(idx,cisc,16,long) aes(partial) blowfish(ptr)
compiler: cc -arch i386 -arch ppc -g -Os -pipe -arch i386 -arch ppc -pipe -DOPENSSL_NO_IDEA -DFAR=
available timing options: TIMEB USE_TOD HZ=100 [sysconf value]
timing function used: getrusage
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.
type 16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes
blowfish cbc 45997.30k 51100.78k 52532.67k 52895.72k 53053.47k
IBM HS20 Blade with (1) 3.0 GHZ Intel Xeon CPU w/ Hyperthreading:
$ /usr/sfw/bin/openssl speed blowfish
Doing blowfish cbc for 3s on 16 size blocks: 14394701 blowfish cbc's in 2.99s
Doing blowfish cbc for 3s on 64 size blocks: 3827438 blowfish cbc's in 3.00s
Doing blowfish cbc for 3s on 256 size blocks: 979301 blowfish cbc's in 3.00s
Doing blowfish cbc for 3s on 1024 size blocks: 250691 blowfish cbc's in 3.00s
Doing blowfish cbc for 3s on 8192 size blocks: 31586 blowfish cbc's in 3.00s
OpenSSL 0.9.7d 17 Mar 2004
built on: date not available
options:bn(64,32) md2(int) rc4(ptr,char) des(ptr,cisc,16,long) aes(partial) blowfish(ptr)
compiler: information not available
available timing options: TIMES TIMEB HZ=100 [sysconf value]
timing function used: times
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.
type 16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes
blowfish cbc 77028.50k 81652.01k 83567.02k 85569.19k 86250.84k