argon2 - Why does the GPU get a comparatively bigger advantage to the CPU when using higher parallelism in Argon2id? - Cryptography Stack Exchange https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/90036/why-does-the-gpu-get-a-comparatively-bigger-advantage-to-the-cpu-when-using-high
> The reason memory-hard KDFs use a large amount of memory is not to slow down computations by making memory bus bandwidth a bottleneck, but to make the computations impossible to perform on hardware that doesn't have sufficient memory.