This repo is used for academic workshop, with the title "Benchmarking zkVMs: Efficiency, Bottlenecks, and Best Practices", at ZKProof7 in Sofia.

zkVM Benchmarks

See bench result here

Prerequisite

• Rust
• Cuda Toolkit
• Cuda Container Toolkit

Running

Option 1. Local

Firstly, install all toolchains:

• Jolt: https://jolt.a16zcrypto.com/usage/quickstart.html#installing
• Nexus: https://docs.nexus.xyz/zkvm/proving/sdk#1-install-the-nexus-zkvm
• RISC Zero: https://dev.risczero.com/api/zkvm/install
• SP1: https://docs.succinct.xyz/docs/sp1/getting-started/install
• ZKM: https://docs.zkm.io/introduction/installation.html
• OpenVM: https://book.openvm.dev/getting-started/install.html
• Pico: https://docs.brevis.network/getting-started/installation

Then, run:

make bench-all

or

make bench-<sp1|sp1-gpu|jolt|jolt-gpu|nexus|openvm|pico|risczero|risczero-gpu|zkm>

Option 2. Docker

cd docker
docker compose build base
docker compose run <sp1|jolt|nexus|openvm|pico|risczero|zkm>

Current status

We are so welcome to your contribution!

	Fibonacci	SHA2	ECDSA	ETHTransfer	Notes
SP1 (CPU/GPU)	✅	✅	✅	✅
RISC Zero (CPU/GPU)	✅	✅	✅	✅
ZKM	✅	✅	✅	✅
Novanet	✅	❌	❌	❌
Ceno					No SDK yet
OpenVM	✅	✅	✅	✅
Jolt (CPU/GPU)	✅	✅	✅	✅	It's still in development. GPU Acceleration is still only partially implemented.
Nexus	✅	✅	❌	❌	std is not supported yet.
Pico	✅	✅	✅	✅
zkWASM
Valida					The repo is currently private, and the latest docker image is not available.
Snarkify
Zisk

Hardware Requirement

Architecture	Linux x86_64
vCPU	8
RAM	128 GB
VRAM	24GB