As you know, NVIDIA introduced its new monster graphics card series, the 4000 series, in the past weeks. The flagship of the new series, the GeForce RTX 4090, has already managed to surprise everyone with its performance. But such high performance can be a tool not only for gaming and productivity, but also for illegal activities.
According to research by security companies, this unique power of the RTX 4090 will not only be used by good people. Because with its features, the RTX 4090 can be the most powerful weapon of hackers. How Does? Let’s explain.
The password cracking power of the RTX 4090 is undeniable.
The processing power of Graphics Processing Units (GPU) is many times more powerful than standard Computing Units (CPU). Therefore, graphics cards are used in elements where trillions of transactions and calculations are returned, such as cryptocurrency mining. There are also password cracking activities among the calculations and operations made with video cards.
NVIDIA’s new monster, the RTX 4090, will be a card that will be at the top in this regard. Tested with the Hashcat password cracking tool against Microsoft’s New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) authentication protocol, the RTX 4090 showed daunting results.
According to the results, a fully equipped hash rig with eight RTX 4090 GPUs is capable of cracking an eight-character password in just 48 minutes out of 200 billion tries. The graphics card managed to perform 2.5 times better than the RTX 3090 at this point, and set a new record in this regard.
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