SGX Benchmark

Intel SGX Benchmark.

Systems

Find all detailed information from dmidecode and test-sgx under system folder.

Intel NUC7PJYH (SGX1 & SGX2)

• Pentium Silver J5005 CPU @ 1.50 GHz, 8 GB RAM @ 2400 MT/s
• Ubuntu 20.04.3, Intel DCAP driver 1.41, PSW 2.15.1
• EPC section in Processor Reserved Memory, 94 MB

Dell Precision 5750 (SGX1)

• Xeon W-10885M CPU @ 2.40 GHz, 64 GB ECC RAM @ 2667 MT/s
• Ubuntu 22.04, Kernel 5.13, PSW 2.15.1
• EPC section in Processor Reserved Memory, 93 MB

HP ProLiant DL20 Gen10 (SGX1)

• Xeon E-2276G CPU @ 3.80 GHz, 32 GB ECC RAM @ 2667 MT/s
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5, Intel DCAP driver 1.41, PSW 2.13
• EPC section in Processor Reserved Memory, 93 MB

SuperMicro X12SPM-TF (SGX1 & SGX2)

• Xeon Gold 5315Y CPU @ 3.20 GHz, 512 GB ECC RAM @ 2933 MT/s
• Ubuntu 20.04.3, Intel DCAP driver 1.41, PSW 2.15.1
• EPC section in Processor Reserved Memory, 65144 MB

Benchmarks

Benchmarks are time-based. The tests run 1.000 times, and the average is used for this document. The tests run in release hardware mode without mitigation of CVE-2020-0551.

Find the complete running data inside data folder and the code inside code folder.

Enclave Size

Run different sized enclaves by 1,000 iterations.

Overall

1 MB Enclave

• Xeon Gold 5315Y: 0.01 seconds.
• Xeon E-2276G: 0.01 seconds.
• Xeon W-10885M: 0.04 seconds.
• Pentium Silver J5005: 0.03 seconds.

Less is better.

10 MB Enclave

• Xeon Gold 5315Y: 0.03 seconds.
• Xeon E-2276G: 0.03 seconds.
• Xeon W-10885M: 0.07 seconds.
• Pentium Silver J5005: 0.1 seconds.

Less is better.

80 MB Enclave

Inside SGX1 processor available memory. So this is mostly the last value, which will not swap EPC pages.

• Xeon Gold 5315Y: 0.18 seconds.
• Xeon E-2276G: 0.2 seconds.
• Xeon W-10885M: 0.21 seconds.
• Pentium Silver J5005: 0.65 seconds.

Less is better.

100 MB Enclaves

• Xeon Gold 5315Y: 0.22 seconds.
• Xeon E-2276G: 0.4 seconds.
• Xeon W-10885M: 0.46 seconds.
• Pentium Silver J5005: 1.2 seconds.

Less is better.

1 GB Enclaves

• Xeon Gold 5315Y: 1.88 seconds.
• Xeon E-2276G: 5.31 seconds.
• Xeon W-10885M: 5.42 seconds.
• Pentium Silver J5005: 13.25 seconds.

Less is better.

10 GB Enclaves

• Xeon Gold 5315Y: 18.64 seconds.
• Xeon E-2276G: 53.6 seconds.
• Xeon W-10885M: 54.67 seconds.
• Pentium Silver J5005: Not enough memory. But will swap to disk and will execute in about 57 minutes.

Less is better.