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ZisK's new four-GPU benchmark claim has lowered the headline hardware count in Ethereum's real-time proving race
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In February, CryptoSlate examined a roughly 12-GPU setup as a possible centralization risk.
Key facts
- Nvidia launched the RTX 5090 at $1,999, putting four cards at $7,996 at launch MSRP
- Ethproofs currently lists ZisK versions through v0.18.0 and exposes a 16-GPU RTX 5090 ZisK configuration
- OpenVM's July production release reported a 9.8-second p99 on eight 5090 GPUs across 7,200 Ethereum mainnet blocks beginning at block 24,000,000
- Ethereum is +1.29% over the past 24 hours and currently sits at rank # 2 by market cap
Summary
01 ZisK said its v1.1.0-alpha prover hit a 9.62-second p99 on four RTX 5090 GPUs. 02 That puts its claimed Ethereum proving speed within the 10-second target while cutting the headline GPU count. 03 ZisK has not disclosed the workload, block range, proof size, or whole-system power for the run. ZisK's new four-GPU benchmark claim has lowered the headline hardware count in Ethereum's real-time proving race. ZisK is an open-source zero-knowledge virtual machine project, and on Aug. 18 it said its v1.1.0-alpha prover recorded a 9.62-second p99 on four RTX 5090 GPUs.