Airbender proves a standard Ethereum block using just a single H100 GPU when integrated with zkSync OS—clocking in at roughly 17 seconds for pre-recursion and 35 seconds for the full end-to-end pipeline.

The proving footprint here is notably lean compared to traditional zkVM implementations that spin up massive GPU clusters. While direct benchmarking gets tricky due to varying setup methodologies and hardware configurations across different projects, the efficiency gains from running high-performance proving on commodity single-GPU setups mark a meaningful step forward for practical zero-knowledge infrastructure scaling.