Benchmarks

Due to their nature, homomorphic operations are naturally slower than their cleartext equivalents. Some timings are exposed for basic operations. For completeness, benchmarks for other libraries are also given.

All benchmarks were launched on an AWS hpc7a.96xlarge instance with the following specifications: AMD EPYC 9R14 CPU @ 2.60GHz and 740GB of RAM.

Integer

This measures the execution time for some operation sets of tfhe-rs::integer (the unsigned version). Note that the timings for FheInt (i.e., the signed integers) are similar.

The table below reports the timing when the inputs of the benchmarked operation are encrypted.

Operation \ Size	FheUint8	FheUint16	FheUint32	FheUint64	FheUint128	FheUint256
Negation (-)	55.4 ms	79.7 ms	105 ms	133 ms	163 ms	199 ms
Add / Sub (+,-)	58.9 ms	86.0 ms	106 ms	124 ms	151 ms	193 ms
Mul (x)	122 ms	164 ms	227 ms	410 ms	1,04 s	3,41 s
Equal / Not Equal (eq, ne)	32.0 ms	32.0 ms	50.4 ms	50.9 ms	53.1 ms	54.6 ms
Comparisons (ge, gt, le, lt)	43.7 ms	65.2 ms	84.3 ms	107 ms	132 ms	159 ms
Max / Min (max,min)	68.4 ms	86.8 ms	106 ms	132 ms	160 ms	200 ms
Bitwise operations (&, |, ^)	17.1 ms	17.3 ms	17.8 ms	18.8 ms	20.2 ms	22.2 ms
Div / Rem (/, %)	631 ms	1.59 s	3.77 s	8,64 s	20,3 s	53,4 s
Left / Right Shifts (<<, >>)	82.8 ms	99.2 ms	121 ms	149 ms	194 ms	401 ms
Left / Right Rotations (left_rotate, right_rotate)	82.1 ms	99.4 ms	120 ms	149 ms	194 ms	402 ms

The table below reports the timing when the left input of the benchmarked operation is encrypted and the other is a clear scalar of the same size.

Operation \ Size	FheUint8	FheUint16	FheUint32	FheUint64	FheUint128	FheUint256
Add / Sub (+,-)	68.3 ms	82.4 ms	102 ms	122 ms	151 ms	191 ms
Mul (x)	93.7 ms	139 ms	178 ms	242 ms	516 ms	1.02 s
Equal / Not Equal (eq, ne)	30.2 ms	30.8 ms	32.7 ms	50.4 ms	51.2 ms	54.8 ms
Comparisons (ge, gt, le, lt)	47.3 ms	69.9 ms	96.3 ms	102 ms	138 ms	141 ms
Max / Min (max,min)	75.4 ms	99.7 ms	120 ms	126 ms	150 ms	186 ms
Bitwise operations (&, |, ^)	17.1 ms	17.4 ms	18.2 ms	19.2 ms	19.7 ms	22.6 ms
Div (/)	160 ms	212 ms	272 ms	402 ms	796 ms	2.27 s
Rem (%)	315 ms	428 ms	556 ms	767 ms	1.27 s	2.86 s
Left / Right Shifts (<<, >>)	16.8 ms	16.8 ms	17.3 ms	18.0 ms	18.9 ms	22.6 ms
Left / Right Rotations (left_rotate, right_rotate)	16.8 ms	16.9 ms	17.3 ms	18.3 ms	19.0 ms	22.8 ms

All timings are related to parallelized Radix-based integer operations, where each block is encrypted using the default parameters (i.e., PARAM_MESSAGE_2_CARRY_2_KS_PBS, more information about parameters can be found here). To ensure predictable timings, the operation flavor is the default one: the carry is propagated if needed. The operation costs may be reduced by using unchecked, checked, or smart.

Shortint

This measures the execution time for some operations using various parameter sets of tfhe-rs::shortint. Except for unchecked_add, all timings are related to the default operations. This flavor ensures predictable timings for an operation along the entire circuit by clearing the carry space after each operation.

This uses the Concrete FFT + AVX-512 configuration.

Parameter set	PARAM_MESSAGE_1_CARRY_1	PARAM_MESSAGE_2_CARRY_2	PARAM_MESSAGE_3_CARRY_3	PARAM_MESSAGE_4_CARRY_4
unchecked_add	341 ns	555 ns	2.47 µs	9.77 µs
add	5.96 ms	12.6 ms	102 ms	508 ms
mul_lsb	5.99 ms	12.3 ms	101 ms	500 ms
keyswitch_programmable_bootstrap	6.40 ms	12.9 ms	104 ms	489 ms

Boolean

This measures the execution time of a single binary Boolean gate.

tfhe-rs::boolean.

Parameter set	Concrete FFT + AVX-512
DEFAULT_PARAMETERS_KS_PBS	8.49 ms
PARAMETERS_ERROR_PROB_2_POW_MINUS_165_KS_PBS	13.7 ms
TFHE_LIB_PARAMETERS	9.90 ms

tfhe-lib.

Using the same hpc7a.96xlarge machine as the one for tfhe-rs, the timings are:

Parameter set	spqlios-fma
default_128bit_gate_bootstrapping_parameters	13.5 ms

OpenFHE (v1.1.2).

Following the official instructions from OpenFHE, clang14 and the following command are used to setup the project: cmake -DNATIVE_SIZE=32 -DWITH_NATIVEOPT=ON -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++ -DWITH_OPENMP=OFF ..

To use the HEXL library, the configuration used is as follows:

export CXX=clang++
export CC=clang

scripts/configure.sh
Release -> y
hexl -> y

scripts/build-openfhe-development-hexl.sh

Using the same hpc7a.96xlarge machine as the one for tfhe-rs, the timings are:

Parameter set	GINX	GINX w/ Intel HEXL
FHEW_BINGATE/STD128_OR	25.5 ms	21,6 ms
FHEW_BINGATE/STD128_LMKCDEY_OR	25.4 ms	19.9 ms

How to reproduce TFHE-rs benchmarks

TFHE-rs benchmarks can be easily reproduced from source.

#Boolean benchmarks:
make AVX512_SUPPORT=ON bench_boolean

#Integer benchmarks:
make AVX512_SUPPORT=ON bench_integer

#Shortint benchmarks:
make AVX512_SUPPORT=ON bench_shortint

If the host machine does not support AVX512, then turning on AVX512_SUPPORT will not provide any speed-up.