Performance on AVR

This page lists the performance figures for AVR platforms, in particular the ATmega2560 running at 16MHz. Figures for other AVR chips should be fairly similar. Performance figures for 32-bit platforms can be found here.

Performance of AEAD algorithms on AVR

Algorithm	Key Bits	Nonce Bits	Tag Bits	Encrypt 128 bytes	Decrypt 128 bytes	Encrypt 16 bytes	Decrypt 16 bytes	Average
COMET-128_CHAM-128/128	128	128	128	6.45	4.91	11.95	10.02	6.70
COMET-64_CHAM-64/128	128	120	128	5.69	4.67	13.18	11.28	6.40
SATURNIN-Short	256	128	256			6.36	6.16	6.26
COMET-64_SPECK-64/128	128	120	128	5.15	4.32	12.07	10.55	5.88
Schwaemm128-128 (SPARKLE)	128	128	128	4.38	3.87	8.37	7.70	4.94
Schwaemm256-128 (SPARKLE)	128	256	128	4.45	4.00	5.07	4.89	4.45
Schwaemm192-192 (SPARKLE)	192	192	192	3.63	3.31	5.29	5.05	3.91
Schwaemm256-256 (SPARKLE)	256	256	256	3.03	2.75	3.45	3.33	3.04
ASCON-128a	128	128	128	2.79	2.57	4.10	3.91	3.02
GIFT-COFB	128	128	128	2.61	2.41	3.88	3.70	2.83
HYENA	128	96	128	2.30	2.19	3.70	3.55	2.59
ASCON-128	128	128	128	2.05	1.95	3.65	3.50	2.36
ASCON-80pq	160	128	128	2.05	1.95	3.65	3.52	2.36
Delirium (Elephant)	128	96	128	1.89	1.77	3.60	3.52	2.20
Romulus-N3	128	96	128	1.78	1.72	4.11	3.92	2.17
TinyJAMBU-128	128	96	64	1.76	1.71	4.23	4.07	2.17
ORANGE-Zest	128	128	128	2.00	1.92	2.71	2.66	2.16
Spook-128-512-su	256	128	128	2.08	2.00	2.32	2.31	2.13
Spook-128-512-mu	256	128	128	2.08	1.99	2.32	2.31	2.12
SKINNY-AEAD-M6	128	96	64	1.81	1.58	4.14	3.76	2.10
SKINNY-AEAD-M5	128	96	128	1.81	1.57	4.13	3.75	2.10
GIMLI-24	256	128	128	1.89	1.82	2.75	2.69	2.08
SUNDAE-GIFT-0	128	0	128	1.67	1.65	3.93	3.85	2.07
TinyJAMBU-192	192	96	64	1.59	1.55	3.89	3.75	1.97
ESTATE_TweGIFT-128	128	128	128	1.58	1.54	3.82	3.67	1.96
SUNDAE-GIFT-64	128	64	128	1.58	1.57	3.17	3.13	1.90
SUNDAE-GIFT-96	128	96	128	1.58	1.57	3.16	3.12	1.90
SUNDAE-GIFT-128	128	128	128	1.58	1.57	3.14	3.10	1.90
Spook-128-384-su	128	128	128	1.64	1.60	2.82	2.80	1.89
Spook-128-384-mu	128	128	128	1.64	1.60	2.81	2.79	1.89
Subterranean	128	128	128	1.83	1.73	1.89	1.85	1.81
SpoC-128	128	128	128	1.46	1.44	3.47	3.37	1.81
TinyJAMBU-256	256	96	64	1.45	1.42	3.60	3.48	1.80
Xoodyak	128	128	128	1.64	1.58	1.99	1.95	1.72
Pyjamask-96-AEAD	128	64	96	1.47	1.45	2.13	2.11	1.64
Pyjamask-128-AEAD	128	96	128	1.39	1.34	1.95	1.91	1.52
KNOT-AEAD-128-384	128	128	128	1.40	1.38	1.76	1.75	1.50
PHOTON-Beetle-AEAD-ENC-128	128	128	128	1.16	1.15	2.82	2.76	1.45
Romulus-N2	128	96	128	1.16	1.15	2.69	2.63	1.44
Romulus-N1	128	128	128	1.16	1.15	2.69	2.62	1.43
Romulus-M3	128	96	128	1.15	1.14	2.72	2.67	1.43
SpoC-64	128	128	64	1.10	1.10	2.64	2.59	1.38
KNOT-AEAD-128-256	128	128	128	1.11	1.10	2.27	2.24	1.34
SKINNY-AEAD-M3	128	128	64	1.14	0.97	2.64	2.37	1.31
SKINNY-AEAD-M4	128	96	64	1.14	0.97	2.64	2.37	1.31
SKINNY-AEAD-M2	128	96	128	1.14	0.97	2.64	2.37	1.31
SKINNY-AEAD-M1	128	128	128	1.14	0.97	2.64	2.37	1.31
SATURNIN-CTR-Cascade	256	128	256	1.06	1.06	1.53	1.51	1.19
DryGASCON128	128	128	128	0.89	0.89	1.93	1.90	1.09
SAEF-ForkSkinny-128-192	128	56	128	0.95	0.67	4.00	2.73	1.06
SAEF-ForkSkinny-128-256	128	120	128	0.95	0.67	4.00	2.73	1.06
PAEF-ForkSkinny-128-256	128	112	128	0.95	0.67	3.90	2.73	1.06
PAEF-ForkSkinny-128-192	128	48	128	0.95	0.67	3.88	2.72	1.06
LOTUS-AEAD	128	128	64	0.83	0.84	2.21	2.17	1.06
LOCUS-AEAD	128	128	64	0.83	0.83	2.20	2.16	1.06
Oribatida-192-96	128	64	96	0.85	0.85	1.80	1.77	1.04
SPIX	128	128	128	0.98	0.99	1.11	1.11	1.03
Romulus-M1	128	128	128	0.80	0.81	1.81	1.78	1.00
Romulus-M2	128	96	128	0.75	0.76	1.81	1.78	0.94
Oribatida-256-64	128	128	128	0.68	0.69	1.61	1.60	0.85
Grain-128AEAD	128	96	64	0.64	0.62	1.81	1.74	0.81
KNOT-AEAD-192-384	192	192	192	0.68	0.69	1.19	1.19	0.80
DryGASCON256	256	128	256	0.62	0.63	1.18	1.17	0.75
WAGE	128	128	128	0.65	0.65	0.92	0.91	0.72
PAEF-ForkSkinny-128-288	128	104	128	0.61	0.39	2.56	1.61	0.65
PAEF-ForkSkinny-64-192	128	48	64	0.58	0.38	2.44	1.56	0.62
KNOT-AEAD-256-512	256	256	256	0.42	0.44	0.63	0.63	0.48
Dumbo (Elephant)	128	96	64	0.38	0.39	0.82	0.83	0.47
ACE	128	128	128	0.41	0.42	0.60	0.61	0.46
PHOTON-Beetle-AEAD-ENC-32	128	128	128	0.33	0.34	1.15	1.15	0.44
Jumbo (Elephant)	128	96	64	0.34	0.35	0.65	0.65	0.41
ISAP-A-128A	128	128	128	0.37	0.38	0.31	0.32	0.35
ISAP-K-128A	128	128	128	0.32	0.33	0.25	0.25	0.30
ISAP-A-128	128	128	128	0.07	0.08	0.04	0.04	0.06
ISAP-K-128	128	128	128	0.05	0.06	0.03	0.03	0.04

Performance of hash algorithms on AVR

Algorithm	Hash Bits	1024 bytes	128 bytes	16 bytes	Average
Esch256 (SPARKLE)	256	1.90	1.65	3.15	2.23
GIMLI-24-HASH	256	1.29	1.06	1.76	1.37
Esch384 (SPARKLE)	384	1.20	0.96	1.48	1.21
SATURNIN-Hash	256	0.94	0.77	1.86	1.19
Xoodyak	256	0.92	0.83	1.83	1.19
DryGASCON128-HASH	256	0.53	0.51	1.62	0.88
ORANGISH	256	0.66	0.55	0.92	0.71
ASCON-HASH	256	0.66	0.55	0.91	0.71
PHOTON-Beetle-HASH	256	0.17	0.18	1.38	0.58
DryGASCON256-HASH	512	0.39	0.34	0.67	0.47
Subterranean-Hash	256	0.27	0.26	0.70	0.41
ACE-HASH	256	0.28	0.23	0.38	0.30
KNOT-HASH-256-384	256	0.28	0.23	0.38	0.30
KNOT-HASH-256-256	256	0.14	0.14	0.38	0.22
SKINNY-tk3-HASH	256	0.22	0.18	0.31	0.21
SKINNY-tk2-HASH	256	0.13	0.13	0.36	0.21
KNOT-HASH-384-384	384	0.08	0.08	0.22	0.13
KNOT-HASH-512-512	512	0.06	0.05	0.11	0.07

Overall group rankings for AVR

AEAD algorithm rankings:

Rank	Algorithms
67	COMET
44	SPARKLE
28	GIFT-COFB
25	HYENA
23	ASCON
21	TinyJAMBU, ORANGE, Spook
20	Gimli
19	ESTATE, SUNDAE-GIFT
18	Subterranean
17	Xoodyak
15	Pyjamask
14	Romulus, PHOTON-Beetle
13	KNOT, SKINNY-AEAD, SpoC
11	Saturnin
10	DryGASCON, LOTUS, SPIX
8	Oribatida, Grain-128AEAD
7	WAGE
6	ForkAE
4	ACE, Elephant
3	ISAP

Hash algorithm rankings:

Rank	Algorithms
22	SPARKLE
13	Gimli
11	Saturnin, Xoodyak
8	DryGASCON
7	ASCON, ORANGE
5	PHOTON-Beetle
4	Subterranean
3	ACE
2	KNOT, SKINNY-AEAD