Mac Studio M4 Max benchmarks: Metal SP1 prover shows 2.5-5.75x speedup
StefanoGogioso · x · 2026-08-28
Stefano Gogioso released benchmarks for the Metal port of the SP1 prover running on a Mac Studio M4 Max. The results indicate a 2.5x to 5.75x performance improvement over the CPU prover across a selection of BTC/ETH statements. The post also includes various microbenchmark figures and mentions ongoing testing on a Macbook Pro M5 Max.
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