hashrate dependence on mask order

[Chick3nman]

This is a common misunderstanding about how hashcat works under the hood and how work is created/separated. Certain orientations of work lead to difficult or poor division of work, meaning that its very hard to take advantage of the parallel processing capabilities of the GPU. This is explained a little more indepth here:
https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=fre...full_speed