12-03-2022, 07:35 AM
Sounds like your dictionary is relatively small and/or your host is having trouble streaming it to the GPU sufficiently. The speed bump is likely because there's a period where the GPU is left without work while it waits for the host to send it the next batch of candidates.
https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=fre...full_speed
https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=fre...full_speed