14 posts tagged with "client comparison"

We deployed all 6 Ethereum execution clients from scratch on bare metal and tracked exactly how long each one took to fully sync. The results range from impressive to alarming.

How does each execution client behave when Nimbus asks it to build a block? We monitored 1,000 validator pubkeys across 5 EC pairings for 48 hours and found that block building performance varies dramatically, with one client producing near-empty blocks while the other four packed in millions of gas.

A deep dive into how Teku evolved across three releases: the RocksDB migration in 26.2.0, jemalloc in 26.3.0, and what both changes mean for CPU, memory, GC overhead, disk I/O, and block import latency on real hardware.

Let's have a look at both versions of Prysm 7.1.1 and 7.1.2 and it's resource consumption