diff --git a/neo.UnitTests/UT_UIntBenchmarks.cs b/neo.UnitTests/UT_UIntBenchmarks.cs
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+using FluentAssertions;
+using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;
+using Neo.Cryptography.ECC;
+using Neo.IO;
+using Neo.Ledger;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Text;
+using System.Diagnostics;
+using System;
+//using System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe;
+
+namespace Neo.UnitTests
+{
+    [TestClass]
+    public class UT_UIntBenchmarks
+    {
+        int MAX_TESTS = 1000000; // 1 million
+
+        byte[][] base_32_1;
+        byte[][] base_32_2;
+        byte[][] base_20_1;
+        byte[][] base_20_2;
+
+        private Random random;
+
+        [TestInitialize]
+        public void TestSetup()
+        {
+            int SEED = 123456789;
+            random = new Random(SEED);
+
+            base_32_1 = new byte[MAX_TESTS][];
+            base_32_2 = new byte[MAX_TESTS][];
+            base_20_1 = new byte[MAX_TESTS][];
+            base_20_2 = new byte[MAX_TESTS][];
+
+            for(var i=0; i<MAX_TESTS; i++)
+            {
+                base_32_1[i] = RandomBytes(32);
+                base_20_1[i] = RandomBytes(20);
+                if (i % 2 == 0)
+                {
+                    base_32_2[i] = RandomBytes(32);
+                    base_20_2[i] = RandomBytes(20);
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    base_32_2[i] = new byte[32];
+                    Buffer.BlockCopy(base_32_1[i], 0, base_32_2[i], 0, 32);
+                    base_20_2[i] = new byte[20];
+                    Buffer.BlockCopy(base_20_1[i], 0, base_20_2[i], 0, 20);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        private byte[] RandomBytes(int count)
+        {
+            byte[] randomBytes = new byte[count];
+            random.NextBytes(randomBytes);
+            return randomBytes;
+        }
+
+        public delegate Object BenchmarkMethod();
+
+        public (TimeSpan, Object) Benchmark(BenchmarkMethod method)
+        {
+            Stopwatch sw0 = new Stopwatch();
+            sw0.Start();
+            var result = method();
+            sw0.Stop();
+            TimeSpan elapsed = sw0.Elapsed;
+            Console.WriteLine($"Elapsed={elapsed} Sum={result}");
+            return (elapsed, result);
+        }
+
+        /* Could do this also so just pass the method to benchmark, but overhead of delegate call might affect benchmark
+        public delegate int ComparisonMethod(byte[] b1, byte[] b2);
+
+        public int BechmarkComparisonMethod(ComparisonMethod compareMethod)
+        {
+        }
+        */
+
+        [TestMethod]
+        public void Benchmark_CompareTo_UInt256()
+        {
+            // testing "official UInt256 version"
+            UInt256[] uut_32_1 = new UInt256[MAX_TESTS];
+            UInt256[] uut_32_2 = new UInt256[MAX_TESTS];
+
+            for(var i=0; i<MAX_TESTS; i++)
+            {
+                uut_32_1[i] = new UInt256(base_32_1[i]);
+                uut_32_2[i] = new UInt256(base_32_2[i]);
+            }
+
+            var checksum0 = Benchmark(() =>
+            {
+                var checksum = 0;
+                for(var i=0; i<MAX_TESTS; i++)
+                {
+                    checksum += uut_32_1[i].CompareTo(uut_32_2[i]);
+                }
+
+                return checksum;
+            }).Item2;
+
+            var checksum1 = Benchmark(() =>
+            {
+                var checksum = 0;
+                for(var i=0; i<MAX_TESTS; i++)
+                {
+                    checksum += code1_UInt256CompareTo(base_32_1[i], base_32_2[i]);
+                }
+
+                return checksum;
+            }).Item2;
+
+            var checksum2 = Benchmark(() =>
+            {
+                var checksum = 0;
+                for(var i=0; i<MAX_TESTS; i++)
+                {
+                    checksum += code2_UInt256CompareTo(base_32_1[i], base_32_2[i]);
+                }
+
+                return checksum;
+            }).Item2;
+
+            var checksum3 = Benchmark(() =>
+            {
+                var checksum = 0;
+                for(var i=0; i<MAX_TESTS; i++)
+                {
+                    checksum += code3_UInt256CompareTo(base_32_1[i], base_32_2[i]);
+                }
+
+                return checksum;
+            }).Item2;
+
+            checksum0.Should().Be(checksum1);
+            checksum0.Should().Be(checksum2);
+            checksum0.Should().Be(checksum3);
+        }
+
+        [TestMethod]
+        public void Benchmark_CompareTo_UInt160()
+        {
+            // testing "official UInt160 version"
+            UInt160[] uut_20_1 = new UInt160[MAX_TESTS];
+            UInt160[] uut_20_2 = new UInt160[MAX_TESTS];
+
+            for(var i=0; i<MAX_TESTS; i++)
+            {
+                uut_20_1[i] = new UInt160(base_20_1[i]);
+                uut_20_2[i] = new UInt160(base_20_2[i]);
+            }
+
+            var checksum0 = Benchmark(() =>
+            {
+                var checksum = 0;
+                for(var i=0; i<MAX_TESTS; i++)
+                {
+                    checksum += uut_20_1[i].CompareTo(uut_20_2[i]);
+                }
+
+                return checksum;
+            }).Item2;
+
+            var checksum1 = Benchmark(() =>
+            {
+                var checksum = 0;
+                for(var i=0; i<MAX_TESTS; i++)
+                {
+                    checksum += code1_UInt160CompareTo(base_20_1[i], base_20_2[i]);
+                }
+
+                return checksum;
+            }).Item2;
+
+            var checksum2 = Benchmark(() =>
+            {
+                var checksum = 0;
+                for(var i=0; i<MAX_TESTS; i++)
+                {
+                    checksum += code2_UInt160CompareTo(base_20_1[i], base_20_2[i]);
+                }
+
+                return checksum;
+            }).Item2;
+
+            var checksum3 = Benchmark(() =>
+            {
+                var checksum = 0;
+                for(var i=0; i<MAX_TESTS; i++)
+                {
+                    checksum += code3_UInt160CompareTo(base_20_1[i], base_20_2[i]);
+                }
+
+                return checksum;
+            }).Item2;
+
+            checksum0.Should().Be(checksum1);
+            checksum0.Should().Be(checksum2);
+            checksum0.Should().Be(checksum3);
+        }
+
+        [TestMethod]
+        public void Benchmark_UInt_IsCorrect_Self_CompareTo()
+        {
+            for(var i=0; i<MAX_TESTS; i++)
+            {
+                code1_UInt160CompareTo(base_20_1[i], base_20_1[i]).Should().Be(0);
+                code2_UInt160CompareTo(base_20_1[i], base_20_1[i]).Should().Be(0);
+                code3_UInt160CompareTo(base_20_1[i], base_20_1[i]).Should().Be(0);
+                code1_UInt256CompareTo(base_32_1[i], base_32_1[i]).Should().Be(0);
+                code2_UInt256CompareTo(base_32_1[i], base_32_1[i]).Should().Be(0);
+                code3_UInt256CompareTo(base_32_1[i], base_32_1[i]).Should().Be(0);
+            }
+        }
+
+        private int code1_UInt256CompareTo(byte[] b1, byte[] b2)
+        {
+            byte[] x = b1;
+            byte[] y = b2;
+            for (int i = x.Length - 1; i >= 0; i--)
+            {
+                if (x[i] > y[i])
+                    return 1;
+                if (x[i] < y[i])
+                    return -1;
+            }
+            return 0;
+        }
+
+        private unsafe int code2_UInt256CompareTo(byte[] b1, byte[] b2)
+        {
+            fixed (byte* px = b1, py = b2)
+            {
+                uint* lpx = (uint*)px;
+                uint* lpy = (uint*)py;
+                for (int i = 256/32-1; i >= 0; i--)
+                {
+                    if (lpx[i] > lpy[i])
+                        return 1;
+                    if (lpx[i] < lpy[i])
+                        return -1;
+                }
+            }
+            return 0;
+        }
+
+        private unsafe int code3_UInt256CompareTo(byte[] b1, byte[] b2)
+        {
+            fixed (byte* px = b1, py = b2)
+            {
+                ulong* lpx = (ulong*)px;
+                ulong* lpy = (ulong*)py;
+                for (int i = 256/64-1; i >= 0; i--)
+                {
+                    if (lpx[i] > lpy[i])
+                        return 1;
+                    if (lpx[i] < lpy[i])
+                        return -1;
+                }
+            }
+            return 0;
+        }
+        private int code1_UInt160CompareTo(byte[] b1, byte[] b2)
+        {
+            byte[] x = b1;
+            byte[] y = b2;
+            for (int i = x.Length - 1; i >= 0; i--)
+            {
+                if (x[i] > y[i])
+                    return 1;
+                if (x[i] < y[i])
+                    return -1;
+            }
+            return 0;
+        }
+
+        private unsafe int code2_UInt160CompareTo(byte[] b1, byte[] b2)
+        {
+            fixed (byte* px = b1, py = b2)
+            {
+                uint* lpx = (uint*)px;
+                uint* lpy = (uint*)py;
+                for (int i = 160/32-1; i >= 0; i--)
+                {
+                    if (lpx[i] > lpy[i])
+                        return 1;
+                    if (lpx[i] < lpy[i])
+                        return -1;
+                }
+            }
+            return 0;
+        }
+
+        private unsafe int code3_UInt160CompareTo(byte[] b1, byte[] b2)
+        {
+            // LSB -----------------> MSB
+            // --------------------------
+            // | 8B      | 8B      | 4B |
+            // --------------------------
+            //   0l        1l        4i
+            // --------------------------
+            fixed (byte* px = b1, py = b2)
+            {
+                uint* ipx = (uint*)px;
+                uint* ipy = (uint*)py;
+                if (ipx[4] > ipy[4])
+                    return 1;
+                if (ipx[4] < ipy[4])
+                    return -1;
+
+                ulong* lpx = (ulong*)px;
+                ulong* lpy = (ulong*)py;
+                if (lpx[1] > lpy[1])
+                    return 1;
+                if (lpx[1] < lpy[1])
+                    return -1;
+                if (lpx[0] > lpy[0])
+                    return 1;
+                if (lpx[0] < lpy[0])
+                    return -1;
+            }
+            return 0;
+        }
+
+    }
+}
diff --git a/neo.UnitTests/neo.UnitTests.csproj b/neo.UnitTests/neo.UnitTests.csproj
index 3d75fd8e28..158bfba690 100644
--- a/neo.UnitTests/neo.UnitTests.csproj
+++ b/neo.UnitTests/neo.UnitTests.csproj
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
     <TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.0</TargetFramework>
     <AssemblyName>Neo.UnitTests</AssemblyName>
     <RootNamespace>Neo.UnitTests</RootNamespace>
+    <AllowUnsafeBlocks>true</AllowUnsafeBlocks>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>