Sisoft Sandra: Data Encryption

SiSoftware Sandra (System Analyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is a diagnostic tool that can provide detailed information about your computer hardware and software configuration. A year ago, SiSoftware Sandra 2010 released offering full support to Windows 7, to 18 months after the launch of Windows 7, we have witnessed a real coronation of the PC to the media hub. A few months ago was released a benchmark dedicated to the Blu-Ray, now the authors have focused on delivering a new benchmark: the Media Transcoding based on Windows 7 Media Foundation. To all was given a new benchmark (GPGPU Cryptography) which allows a direct comparison between the performance recorded by the CPU (using the set of encryption available) and those of GPGPU.

Test that highlights the new architectures, where the presence of hardware encryption for data encryption, using AES and SHA instructions 256, is a winner. As you can see, the scores of Intel CPUs are undoubtedly the best ever compared to rival AMD. This new CPU manages to detach all the other sharply. In particular, the AES 256 is undoubtedly the score of record, by making a leap of nearly double the previous architecture, Gulftown.

In AES 256 cryptographic encryption computing power we have almost twice the i7-980X CPU power, with has similar levels of the i7-2600K processor. The new instructions are used extremely well in the new architecture.