Metal port of SP1 prover shows up to 5.75x speedup on M4 Max
StefanoGogioso · x · 2026-08-28
The Metal port of the SP1 prover has been fully benchmarked on the Mac Studio M4 Max. It achieves a 2.5-5.75x improvement over the CPU prover on selected BTC/ETH statements, with similar gains in microbenchmarks. Benchmarking is now underway on the Macbook Pro M5 Max with proper thermal management.
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